In my own case, a bit of very important good luck tracked me down one day in 1981, as I stood at a San Francisco curbside, washing my crummy old car.
Thought for the day: Best of luck on this Friday and be sure to enjoy the weekend!
And with any luck, similar storms might one day be eyed by the myriad sensors and instruments of a newly-introduced robot.
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Her wedding ring was a wide one, but it was only nine carat, and her mother told her she would never have a day's good luck with such a ring.
There are even admonitions to avoid certain activities on New Year's Day because they portend bad luck for the coming year.
Chung survived, like so many that day, because of dumb luck.
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But the luck evened itself out later in the day when Hoggard won an lbw decision against Javed Omar (27) despite the ball striking the pads via the inside edge.
His luck ran out three days before D-Day in June 1944 when the Lancaster bomber he was piloting was shot down.
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Too many people in the region wake up with few expectations other than making it through the day, perhaps hoping that their luck will change.
Mrs Middleton, whose friends call her Kay, had one final good luck message for the royal couple before the big day.
Draft day might very well still belong to Luck, but Griffin diverted the Heisman to Waco, Texas, to a school that has never had a player finish better than fourth in the voting and that was 48 years ago.
It's a nifty idea, and one more spas should adopt: Most spas force a client to commit to a service when booking--days, sometimes weeks ahead of time--bad luck if, say, she wrenches her back the day before a facial.
And as luck would have it, the disclosure comes on the day that the bosses of the UK's biggest banks troop in to see the Chancellor, to discuss what commitments they can make to increase their lending to small businesses and decrease their bonus payouts to bankers.
Mr Talbott has also had the good luck to be able to track the same tension in the present day, as America after the cold war has oscillated between a multilateral and unilateral foreign policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush.
With luck, Jobs showed his continued interest in the game earlier in the day, when he indicated that Apple's iTunes was now on over 300 million computers worldwide, mostly Windows machines.
Our luck did eventually turn, with everyone spearing at least one bug by the fourth day, but we never came close to our six-per-person limit.
Now it seems that estate planners who wait until after Boxing Day on Dec. 26 to apply for the numbers will be out of luck.
"I don't know why I've done so well in the one-day games this season, I guess its been down to a bit of luck, " Schofield told BBC Sport.
With luck, this message will be written clearly by the electorate's invisible hand on Election Day.
Likewise, the bean that saves the day was foreshadowed and set up from the beginning, but ultimately still smacks of luck rather than wit or anything particular clever either on the part of Jack or the writers.
The occasion is Setsubun, the day before the symbolic start of spring, when people ward off demons and usher in good luck.
One day this past October, a New Yorker named Jeff Ragsdale, recently dumped and down on his luck, taped a flyer around Manhattan.
"We had a good day and tomorrow they might have a good day, but that's just the nature of the game and we needed a bit of luck to get a few runs, " said Cullinan.
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