Word: lucklessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence Ottinger was a somewhat spectacular failure. He had spent 14 years and $100,000 of his father's money on half a dozen promising but luckless business ventures. Now he had a new idea but he was reluctant to tap his father again. So Ottinger borrowed $500 from his mother. With it, he started a small company with a big name: United States Plywood...
...familiar territory of west Texas. Here & there along the road the general stopped. Sometimes he smiled and politely asked enlisted men for information, such as the location of regimental or battalion command posts. Occasionally he turned on his parade-ground voice in a blast of censure. A luckless 1st Cavalry shavetail...
...with dramatic close-ups and using music scored for an unusual orchestra of organ and musical saw, Cameo took its audience into an isolated village of uncertain time and place to witness the celebration of an annual rite and its grim ending: the communal stoning-to-death of a luckless citizen...
Other minor mishaps over Derby Day also seemed to center around Vanderbilt. Not only did another luckless in male topple down three fights of stairs Friday night, but a minor riot, involving a bonfire on Old Campus, caused Harold B. Whiteman, Assistant Dean of Freshmen, to put the whole dormitory on probation...
...Luckless Bob Bramhall, Crimson substitute forward, was the villain and also almost the hero of the frenzied denouement. Trailing by a slight margin through most of the game, Harvard spurted ahead to a 55 to 53 load with three minutes to go. During the subsequent freeze attempt, Bramhall lost the ball in a wild shot at the Yale basket, and then fouled Anderson's successful lay-up to give the Elis their one-point advantage...