Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leaders of the search believe that Rudolph, a former Army paratrooper trained in wilderness survival, remains on foot, holed up in nearby mountains. "The area is vast," says FBI special agent Craig Dahle, "and locals say, 'Lotsa luck.'" Other investigators are asking acquaintances and associates, Who, really, is Eric Rudolph...
...like a curse. After falling out of a simple double Axel and finishing 10th at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, he failed even to qualify for a spot at Lillehammer, owing to a bout with the flu. Nagano looked promising. Eldredge ranked third after the short program, but bad luck returned to escort him through the long one. He turned two triple-triple jump combinations into triple-doubles, singled one triple Axel and fell while trying to insert another at the end. Watching the performance, his training partner and friend, gold-medal contender Tara Lipinski, nervously gripped...
...Harvard--a tradition whose condescension extends to doubting your ability to be a landlord and assuring you, in the tone of your most patronizing kindergarten teacher, that owning your own building would just be "no fun at all." Come on, girls, you're smarter than that. And best of luck with your club. JESSICA A. NORDELL...
Becky Brown, a GWU freshman, was optimistic that "rubbing John Harvard's foot would bring me luck this term." One's heart just sinks at such a response...
...world because all is right at this moment. There was the President, charming and being charmed by the bicoastal Masters of the Universe: Steven Spielberg, Barry Diller, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, Tom Hanks, Ralph Lauren, John F. Kennedy Jr., Tina Brown, Anna Wintour, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings. Bad luck seemed as far away as it must have seemed in the ballroom of the Titanic. How can anything be wrong when Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton John have come to sing...