Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekday mornings and afternoons. Forgetting who has just come in, I have tried to deduce a person's identity from the elevator camera's glimpse at the top of his head. While bald men have a reasonably good chance of being sent to the right floor, others have little luck. And should someone be sent to the wrong floor, he oftentimes arrives at a foreign landing with a peculiar indignation--as if my mistake were more insolence than inattention...
...Lewinsky may well cooperate with Maryland state prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli, who's after Tripp for secretly taping her young ex-confidant. Montanarelli also thinks another set of tapes -- of conversations between Tripp and New York literary agent Lucianne Goldberg -- may be just the thing to make his case. Good luck: TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf says that Special Prosecutor Ken Starr's interest in Tripp will probably trump any state investigation...
...mountain building (benthic refers to the ocean bottom). He was an English major who had written about gold mining in Alaska without, as he admits, knowing how the gold got there to be mined. Neither did the miners. But he pestered geologists for an explanation, and had the good luck to apply his high-RAM mind to their answers at a time when geology was in flux...
...Augustin hiding in a deep crevasse in a large, barren plateau, but no sooner has he escaped their swords than he runs into a whole new set of daggers, this time in the mouth of the leopard who has claimed the cave as his own. The Frenchman thinks his luck has, like everything else in the desert, finally evaporated, but the leopard merely sniffs him, paces around and performs instead a nasty little fast-food job on the Bedouin hitman still on Augustin's tail...
...lacked before. And now he is giving a banquet in the new hotel to celebrate the birth of his first son. Money is flowing into the town because of all the dam-construction work, and as he circulates among the tables with a bottle of rice liquor and good-luck eggs boiled in red dye, his guests are aglow with dreams for the future. He pauses to offer a toast: "I hope my son will have a happy life...