Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish you luck and pray that we may all be united at this terrible but hopeful moment...
...Fishhook forces sealed off a triangular area of some 50-square miles. With any luck, they may find most of the 7th North Vietnamese Division trapped inside, and perhaps the 5th Viet Cong Division as well. But the main objective is the so-called Central Office for South Viet Nam, the field office from which Hanoi runs its political and military operations in the southern half of South Viet Nam. COSVN has a staff of 2,300 who man an elaborate series of bureaucratic "sections." Yet it is no Pentagon; to confound allied intelligence, its staff moves regularly from bunker...
...gravest conceivable dangers to discipline. Not surprisingly, the Army gets paranoid as soon as a serviceman's politics drift left of far right. Levy, for instance, combined his questioning of the war effort with civil rights work in Mississippi. The Pesidio defendants had the bad luck of sitting in two days after a major west coast anti-war protest in October. 1968. Imagining some connection between the "mutiny" and anti-war politics, the Army came down hard on the dissidents...
...girls grabbed an extra tape of their show, stuck it in a plain brown envelope and sent it in, as Teddi puts it, with a "messy covering letter complete with typos. The whole thing cost us $3.95, plus mailing." As luck would have it, the Peabody judges had decided not to present a radio-news award, but when they heard the Mickie-Teddi tape, they changed their minds...
Boardwalk. Park Place. Ventnor and Atlantic Avenues, not to mention Marvin Gardens. The streets of Monopoly are places of childhood dreams and opportunity, open to anyone with the luck of the dice and a fat enough bankroll to buy there. But not Grosse Pointe and Shaker Heights, Bethesda, Georgetown and San Clemente. They are parts of a new and different game, one in which the color of a buyer's skin may well shut him out of the property he wants, and even drive him off the board...