Word: luckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luckless Lowell team, scoreless so far in league competition, suited up only eleven...
...famously sentimental tale of a harassed bookkeeper whose whimpers found echoes all over a Depression-hounded world. But his talent was timely rather than timeless; moreover, in his native Germany, Fallada and his symbolic "Little Man" pinned their hopes on Hitler, and it turned out to be a luckless choice for both. Fallada's books were pronounced "undesirable" by the Nazis, and in 1944 he ran afoul of the law and was jailed. Though specific charges were never pressed against him, he shared a cell for six months with two insane criminals...
...gland (gonad) which at first cannot be identified as male or female. Within a week or two, in normal growth, it becomes recognizable as either the female kind that will develop into ovaries, or the male kind that will become testicles. Sometimes, nature gets its wires crossed and the luckless infant develops one ovary and one testicle, or an intermediate type of "ovotestis." and some of the genital organs of both sexes. This is true hermaphroditism,* though Pediatrician Lawson Wilkins of Johns Hopkins, a top authority on the subject, prefers the term "intersexuality...
...fleets of Nelson, Rodney and De Grasse, are now impoverished and decaying. Overpopulated, underfed, off the direct pathways of world trade, they have been kept going in recent years mainly by meager doles from the mother countries and rising U.S. tourist trade. Seeking ways out of their luckless predicament, some have suggested switching allegiance to the U.S., a few have talked of lining up with nearby independent countries, and others, defying harsh economic realities, have demanded immediate independence...
...organisms in the brain. They were protozoa, to be sure, but what kind? Not until two years later (1939), when the two doctors had a similar ease and were able to transmit the baby's disease to laboratory mice, could they be sure what it was: toxoplasmosis. The luckless youngster on Eighth Avenue, her illness posthumously diagnosed, was the first case in U.S. medical history...