If he's come out alive he owes it to the photograph of a pretty girl he picks up in the rubble one day -- a snapshot that seems like a lucky talisman, protecting him while so many of his comrades fall.
Just some of the statistics I talked about in my speech yesterday was that the average snack amount when I was growing up was one snack a day, if you were lucky.
For those in the market for a bargain jet, this could be your lucky day.
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The other day I was lucky to moderate a panel on innovation at The New York Forum, a budding Davos-type event.
"It was a little bit lucky but at the end of the day we tried our best to force our luck in the game, " Iraq's German coach Wolfgang Sidka said.
In the course of a five-day tournament, average players who get lucky routinely beat the professionals.
Villages are lucky if they get just a few hours of electricity a day.
Yet Don spent that day in a panic, struggling to devise an ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes.
We like to think that he lived every day with the exuberance of a dog who somehow knew how lucky we all were to find each other.
Then came McCluskey's goal which made it 1-6 to 0-2, and when Watson struck a 20-yard free into the net it looked like the Shamrocks' lucky day.
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But those of you lucky enough to enjoy a more southern exposure should spend 15 minutes in the sun every day without sunscreen.
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The dramatic final-day nature of both his SPL wins earned McLeish the reputation as a "lucky" manager rather than a good one in certain quarters.
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Naturally, with a high profile launch like this we're guessing Apple has done all it can to ensure shipments won't slip through earlier than the June 19th launch date, but hopefully at least few folks will get lucky -- and at least they've got one of the only guarantees of a launch day phone going.
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