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luck and had
As luck had it, he had not gone twenty feet in the street before Pat appeared.
He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.
When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.
Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.
His money was tied up in a Nassau hotel, an Ohio pottery works, and a detergent for window-washing, and luck had been running against him.
The din was successful, too, for just before the moon disappeared, the frightened toad had begun to spit it out again, which meant good luck all around.
Palfrey tried fruitlessly to place a Negro boy in the Hopedale Community, but he had better luck in his other attempts.
`` I haven't had any luck since I was a baby ''.
His luck had failed him, and it was easier to crawl off into bed than to get out and fight the world.
In the early history of curling, the playing stones ( or rocks ) were simply flat-bottomed river stones that were sometimes notched or shaped ; the thrower, unlike those of today, had little control over the stone, and relied more on luck than on skill and strategy.
By luck, these men found the Valley of Copiapó, where a Spaniard called Gonzalo Calvo Barrientos, a Spaniard whom Pizarro had expelled from Peru for stealing objects the Inca had offered for his ransom, had already established a friendship with the local natives.
Humayun had much bad luck throughout his life.
She notes that whatever he had done would have brought him ill luck.
In his opinion, Christianity, along with teleological Aristotelianism that the church had come to accept, allowed practical decisions to be guided too much by imaginary ideals and encouraged people to lazily leave events up to providence or, as he would put it, chance, luck or fortune.
The King and his generals wanted to push on, conquer Bohemia and march to Vienna, but Bismarck, worried that Prussian military luck might change or that France might intervene on Austria's side, enlisted the help of the Crown Prince ( who had opposed the war but had commanded one of the Prussian armies at Königgrätz ) to change his father's mind after stormy meetings.
Carlos Antonio López had survived mainly with caution and a good bit of luck ; Solano López had neither.
She had better luck at other studios in Hollywood, appearing in supporting roles in a string of films, including Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( as Mary Todd Lincoln ), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ( as Mrs. Ehrlich ) and Action in the North Atlantic, in the early 1940s.
Several supplements were published for TNE covering most if not all of what the year 1201 was like, but before any of the meta-events could start to advance the timeline, GDW fell on a string of bad luck and finally was forced to close its doors, after twenty two years in which it had published one new product every 22 days on average ( not counting magazines ).
According to author Brian Carroll, Lyons had been underestimated when he assumed office in 1932 and as leader he demonstrated: " a combination of honesty, native shrewdness, tact, administrative ability, common sense, good luck and good humour that kept him in the job longer than any previous Prime Minister except Hughes ".

luck and been
She'd found it by luck most likely but she hadn't said anything and we didn't know how long ago it'd been or how many other ones she'd found, saying nothing.
Beads have also been used for religious purposes, as good luck talismans, and as curative agents.
From these observations, there is no reason to assume at any point that a change of luck is warranted based on prior trials ( flips ), because every outcome observed will always have been as likely as the other outcomes that were not observed for that particular trial, given a fair coin.
The staff jokingly decided that the peanuts must have been a good luck charm, and the tradition persisted.
John feels honour-bound to go with him, and sadly, says goodbye to Grace Maskew, whom he loves and has been seeing in secret, and gets his mother's prayer book as a good luck charm.
However, there has been little luck in getting closer to the true answer, especially because there are almost 10 million years worth of fossil records missing.
However, there also has been the belief that albatrosses were good omens and to kill one would bring bad luck.
Games such as Backgammon, Octiles, Can't Stop, Sequence and Mentalis have all been described as " abstract strategy ", despite having a luck element.
* Post position refers to the stall in the starting gate to which the horse has been given by a luck of the draw.
By sheer bad luck, it turns out that the femme fatale had also been picked up by Haskell earlier.
A statue of her stands outside the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia because her rendition of " God Bless America " has long been considered a good luck charm for important games of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team.
" The singer never again appeared in Sullivan's show, although in February 1964 at the start of the first of three broadcasts featuring the Beatles ( see below ), Sullivan announced that a telegram had been received from Presley and Parker wishing the British group luck.
Cox endured bad luck and frequent fierce storms which often ruined his work, swamping and re-sinking ships which had just been raised.
The legend has been " cleaned up " by tourist guides who claim the spitting is for good luck, but it is really the same as it was, a good old-fashioned disrespect for authority.
The generals who had been hostile to him could see that his luck had not abandoned him.
This warning persists to modern times ; it has been questioned by folklorist Bob Curran whether the ill luck of the De Lorean Motor Company was associated with the destruction of a fairy thorn to make way for a production facility.
Alternatively, the call may have been a stigma attached to the condemned man, to remind others within earshot not to touch him in order not to catch his bad luck.
Such people have also been ostracized and even killed because they are presumed to bring bad luck in some areas.
However Lou as a boxer did not have much luck, although that might have been due to the fact he barely had time to train, having to go out to the street and perform many types of jobs to try to help the Duva family make ends meet.
It has also been argued that there is a measure of moral luck in how circumstances create the obstacles which conscience must overcome to apply moral principles or human rights and that with the benefit of enforceable property rights and the rule of law, access to universal health care plus the absence of high adult and infant mortality from conditions such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV / AIDS and famine, people in relatively prosperous developed countries have been spared pangs of conscience associated with the physical necessity to steal scraps of food, bribe tax inspectors or police officers, and commit murder in guerrilla wars against corrupt government forces or rebel armies.
This is considered to have been due to bad luck, with his call to the Bar occurring at the same time as the massive contraction in business by the central courts, along with his singular lack of connections due to his status as an orphan from the middle class ; he was described as " unrecognised and unemployed ".

luck and running
The Browns took the ball back and drove to the Denver 8-yard line, but the drive ended with a play that became known as The Fumble resulting more bad luck in Cleveland professional sports lore: Denver defensive back Jeremiah Castille stripped the football from Browns running back Ernest Byner and recovered the ensuing fumble as Byner was rushing in for the potential tying touchdown, securing the Broncos ' win.
Their stores were running dangerously low, and only a brilliant stroke of luck could salvage their position.
By contrast, the unassisted triple play is essentially always a matter of luck: a combination of the right circumstances with the relatively simple effort of catching the ball and running in the right direction with it.
In a game where the Bulldogs ' quarterback failed to complete a single pass and was intercepted twice, Dooleys ' ' Dogs relied on their running game, a staunch second-half defense, and a little bit of luck to beat Graves ' tenth-ranked Florida Gators.
* Criticizing teams that engage in running up the score, considering the move bad karma, and highlighting teams that experience bad luck after running up the score.
Kent Hollingsworth wrote in " The Great Ones ": " Great horses have been beaten by mischance, racing luck, injury and lesser horses running the race of their lives.

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