Word: luck
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Born in Connecticut in 1826, Church had the good luck to be taken on as a student by Thomas Cole, whose slightly stilted allegorical landscapes had made him the most famous American artist of the 1840s. Like Cole, he painted scenes along the Hudson River and in the Catskills, in a manner much indebted to Claude Lorrain: peaceful arcadian vistas with the silver glint of lakes under evening skies. Church's valediction to his dead master, To the Memory of Cole, 1848, with its rose-wreathed cross on a mountainside between two emblems -- the tree stump (death) and the evergreens...
...Israelis to forgive those responsible for the Holocaust. Most Israeli officials declined to meet with Tutu, accusing him of harboring anti-Jewish prejudices. Protestors scrawled "black Nazi pig" on the wall of the church where Tutu was staying. Said the Archbishop: "If I am accused of being antiSemitic, tough luck...
Dartmouth took the game with a lot of strong skating and a little bit of luck...
...such luck for the Crimson's self-image. But Harvard has to be encouraged by its play in the Classic. The Crimson played the Trojans close for the first 11 minutes, trailing by four, 26-22. And against the 49ers, who averaged a three-inch height advantage at each position, Harvard controlled the game until the overtime period...
...concept behind the cellular telephone is to divide a geographical region into overlapping "cells," each assigned its own radio frequency. As callers travel from one telephone cell to another, a complex computer system automatically switches their call from one frequency to the next. And with a little luck, the party they're talking to gets switched at the same time...