Word: luckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation a week later by Du Mont from New York), they have already shown, in response to requests: a one-armed paper hanger in action, a man fighting a bear, another wrestling an alligator, a boxer fighting a wrestler, a 600-lb. cowboy mounted on a luckless nag, a close-up of a lady swallowing swords, a swallower of goldfish, a Hopi Indian rain dance complete with rattlesnake, a scientist who showed (with the help of liquid air at 300° F. below zero) what the world might be like if the sun went out. For last week...
...because their unity on this point was false and their consciences were burning. The day before, in a caucus of the Parliamentary Labor Party, they had turned on Food Minister Maurice Webb and berated him for incompetence. What were they to tell their meat-hungry constituents, they asked the luckless Webb...
Jail & Excommunication. Through it all, luckless Cervantes went ahead writing verses, and even formed a literary society in Algiers among his fellow prisoners. But after six years in the army and five years in captivity, he was no nearer to either of his goals than he had been at 22. For his four daring attempts to escape from his Moorish captors, he spent ten months chained in a cell. When the ransom money finally came, he returned to a Spain that had all but forgotten the heroes of Lepanto, and that could not spare him a pension. The 36-year...
...just missed him with a knife; still another married him, or at least they lived together as man & wife. Cora Taylor was devoted to him, but only a romp with his tiny nieces ever brought a smile to the face of Stephen Crane. His life had a kind of luckless ill grace as if he had been selected fate's prize guinea...
...dismal, Arctic citizens of Lower Slobbovia are forever doomed to stand buried to their chins in snow, bitten from behind by sempiternally voracious bears and wolves. The luckless victims of Fearless Fosdick, the fiendish detective (Capp's caricature of Dick Tracy), who is a dead shot and trigger-itchy, always end up perforated as neatly as so many slices of Swiss cheese. No true Abner fan (classified by Capp as a "slobbering" fan) can forget the magnificent moment when J. Roaringham Fatback, the hog tycoon, ordered Onnecessary Mountain tilted sideways with enormous jacks to keep its shadow from falling...