He caught a lucky break in 1966 when producer Daniel Melnick needed a writer and director to adapt Katherine Anne Porter's short novel Noon Wine for television.

Its proper meaning, however, is that of a lucky break, or a bright interval set in the midst of adversity ; just as the days of calm and mild weather are set in the height of winter for the sake of the kingfishers ' egglaying.

Bowling relates his life history, dwelling on how a lucky break during the First World War landed him in a comfortable job away from any action and provided contacts that helped him become a successful salesman.

On a retest of this subset, the unskilled will be unlikely to repeat their lucky break, while the skilled will have a second chance to have bad luck.

So I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc.

His lucky break came in March 1822, when he was assigned to the frigate Kreiser (" Cruiser "); the vessel took part in a round-the-globe expedition commanded by well-known Russian explorer Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, who had already undertaken several such voyages.

At best, a solid competitor might break even on entry fees and, if they are quite lucky, cover some travel expenses.

After, the frustration of being turned down by recording companies, he had his lucky break and recorded his first 12-inch entitled " Moyo muti " sometime in 1989, to be followed by an album " Yarira Mhere " in 1990.

His lucky break came in 1991 when a film he was working with stopped its production.

Experts credit the timing of the Series as a lucky break that prevented massive loss of life in the city ; key in reducing the loss of life was the fact that many people had left work early or were staying late to participate in after-work group viewings and parties, reducing the traffic that would otherwise have been on the collapsed freeways ( initial expectations were that hundreds of people had died in the collapse of Interstate 880 in Oakland ; the final death toll from that event was 42 ).

I'll be lucky if I break even.

Purchasing an aging Royale Formula Ford car he began putting together the skills required improve the design and received a lucky break in 1973 when Royale founder Bob King decided to sell the team.

Within 10 minutes of being relieved by the Asahi, Admiral Togo got his lucky break, when at 18: 40 hours Asahi fired a 305 mm salvo into the Russian flagship Tsesarevich, instantly killing Admiral Vitgeft and his immediate staff, and jamming the flagship's steering wheel.

He was also once told that he wasn't good enough to become a professional footballer but found his lucky break through a friend that got him a trial at Barnet He then joined Barnet as part of a Youth Training Scheme, before moving to non-league Chesham United under the management of Bob Dowie.

Then they got another lucky break when a punt that would have pinned them inside their own 10-yard line was called back by a Jets penalty.

In his third year, Biedriņš got a lucky break when the Warriors decided to replace coach Mike Montgomery with ex-Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson, elected one of the NBA's " Greatest Coaches of All Time.

In Danner's mansion in the suburbs, Toliver takes Hank to his new room and tells him that he was a street kid like Hank and he is lucky to get a break.

During a break between innings, they announced that a vehicle would be given to a lucky fan, and then outfielder Joe Carter ( accompanied by Pat Tabler ) drove Bell's green jeep out onto the field.

But because of the timing of his " lucky break ," Bagwell became just the fourth player in National League history to win the award unanimously.

Jeff is lucky enough to get Scream its first break, however, his life is soon put into danger as he is pulled into the dark conspiracy behind the statue.

But then, German basketball got a lucky break when a lanky youth named Dirk Nowitzki tried his luck with the Dallas Mavericks and became a superstar.

β Capricorni's traditional name comes from the Arabic phrase for " the lucky stars of the slaughterer ".

The Airy disk around each of the stars from the 2. 56 m telescope aperture can be seen in this lucky imaging | lucky image of the binary star zeta Boötis.

" The surprise at Cremona ," wrote the diarist John Evelyn, "… was the greate discourse of this weeke "; but appeals for succour from Vienna remained unheeded, forcing Eugene to seek battle and gain a ' lucky hitt '.

Also, just because an estimator is biased, does not preclude the error of an estimate from being zero ( we may have gotten lucky ).

Yet another is to recite lines from The Merchant of Venice, thought to be a lucky play.

The term may derive from the use of finger and hand bones from the dead in mojo bags, or from ingredients such as the lucky hand root ( favored by gamblers ).

He was lucky from the outset ; the retirement of González and the death of Molas López had removed two of his most formidable opponents.

Predators which do not heed this warning ( or who are " lucky " enough to catch the puffer suddenly, before or during inflation ) may die from choking, and predators that do manage to swallow the puffer may find their stomachs full of tetrodotoxin, making puffers an unpleasant, possibly lethal, choice of prey.

The first such bronzes were probably a lucky accident from tin contamination of copper ores, but by 2000 BC, we know that tin was being mined on purpose for the production of bronze.

However, it may, in fact, still be a 50 % hybrid if the chromosomes from species A were lucky in two successive segregations, and meiotic crossovers happened near the telomeres.

The word swastika came from the Sanskrit word, meaning any lucky or auspicious object, and in particular a mark made on persons and things to denote auspiciousness.

Bukhara (; Buxoro ; Russian: Бухара Bukhara ), from the Soghdian βuxārak (" lucky place "), is the capital of the Bukhara Province ( viloyat ) of Uzbekistan.

Students from the Santo Tomas campus who were arrested in the occupations have said in later interviews that they were concentrated in the entry lobbies and shot in a random way, some of their friends were not lucky enough to survive.

Winchester instead has an amazing lucky streak, until the other players realize that his incessant whistling ( of a passage from Verdi's " La Traviata ") grows louder when he is holding a weak hand and bluffing.

Some years we are lucky to feature local shriners club from Gowanda.

Supernova explosions are rare, but Reines thought he might be lucky enough to see one in his lifetime, and be able to catch the neutrinos streaming from it in his specially-designed detectors.

It is the land of the cowboy who is clad from head to toe ( if he is lucky ) with very thick leather to avoid the sharp vegetation.

In a news conference on 5 May 2010, Dr. Joseph Zabramski said Michaels has been released from the hospital and that " He's just one of those lucky people " and that " he'll make a complete recovery ".

This was a grave offence, and he was lucky to escape with a month's leave from court in disgrace.

She considers herself lucky to have had supportive mentors from primary school onwards.

All of a sudden, Mr. Jimmy ( who turns out to have been an undercover police officer ) and the police arrive and arrest Frankie, Mr. Smith, and their respective minions and Charlie reclaims Louis ' lucky jacket from the kangaroo telling Louis that if he had not put the jacket on the kangaroo, they would've delivered the money to Smith, and he would've killed them both, Charlie also claims that the jacket is truly lucky.