Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain to make a mark on the world. Once, leaving, I saw that he was just behind me, so that I held the door open for him till he had passed. That was the nearest I ever got to him. I never sat next to Lenin. No such luck...
...much formal training in art. Often this lack of instruction freed them from a rigid approach. Some explored the country searching for ever more dramatic landscapes. Frederick Edwin Church traveled to South America and painted enormous canvasses of the dense jungle beside the Andes, Painting seemed an adventure of luck in finding the right seene. Artists must have carried their easels for miles before stopping before a view and setting up equipment among the leaves. On another large canvas Church painted the sunrise spreading redness over a lake like lava. Similarly painted out of the studio, the landscapes...
...Luck for Purdy
...asked if he was superstitious. "No." he said; and then his small, sharp face broke into a grin. "Well, I don't like the number 17," he said. "It's a bad-luck number in Italy." He smiled sheepishly and toyed with the cross and religious medal which hung from his neck...
...horses approached the crowd on their way to the starting gate and broke into a canter. Overhead, a plane was advertising for the dog races-"Change Your Luck; Raynham Opens Tonite." The track was smooth and brown and neatly furrowed. I looked at the big board. The crowd was betting the favorite. The odds were 7-5 on Great Mystery...