Word: luckless
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...immortalize the moment in 1513 when Vasco Núñez de Balboa became the first recorded European to gaze upon the Pacific Ocean. Balboa's discovery led to the conquest of Peru, and by 1535 the Spaniards were feverishly carting the gold and silver loot of the luckless Incas over Panama's Camino Real (Royal Road) to the tall treasure galleons that sailed for Spain. Last week a 28-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant, who has already retraced Balboa's path, was completing his rediscovery of Panama's historic routes with a rugged crossing...
EVEREST, compiled by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research (Dutton; $7.50), and THE PICTURE OF EVEREST, edited by Alfred Gregory (Dutton; $10), are two of the best picture books on the subject, the first dealing with the luckless Swiss attempts in 1952, the second an all-color stunner on the successful British expedition...
...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...