Blog 'miracle' saves Christmas for hard-luck family. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blog 'miracle' saves Christmas for hard-luck family] Reference
She looked younger still despite her hard-luck life. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
I heard a hard-luck story driving to work this morning. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t get hammered by a handyman] Reference
They used to be Major League Baseball's most famous hard-luck case. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Almond: Why Boston Teams Can't Win For Losing] Reference
You know, the no-chance, hard-luck, dottering campaign of summer 2007. From Wordnik.com. [Nathaniel Bach: Epic Fail: McCain Campaign Magnifies CNN/Palin Debacle] Reference
Dale Travers was a hard-luck kind of guy he'd gone to high school with. From Wordnik.com. [Texas Lawman]
She liked the band for the stories they told about hard-luck characters. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Suicides] Reference
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blog 'miracle' saves Christmas for hard-luck family. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blog 'miracle' saves Christmas for hard-luck family] Reference
But gradually, hard-luck stories began winning out over the light-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Reality Shows Today] Reference
SERWER: It's a phrase every hard-luck sports fan hates to hear: it's only a game. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2004] Reference
Blog ‘miracle’ saves Christmas for hard-luck family at CNN is a good example. From Wordnik.com. [Web Teacher › Making Miracles in the Blogosphere] Reference
Like many others from the hard-luck province, Mr. Coles is considering moving back. From Wordnik.com. [Canada Slips on Oil's Slide] Reference
You have to feel for the publishers and their hard-luck journey for the last seven years. From Wordnik.com. [badger Diary Entry] Reference
I hear the whole song as the lamentations of a congenital hard-luck story.deadsongs. vue.137. From Wordnik.com. [The WELL: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo] Reference
Johan Santana, shown pitching against the Cardinals on April 17, has been a hard-luck starter. From Wordnik.com. [Santana's Arm Does the Talking] Reference
The same hard-luck tune has been playing on the South and West sides of Chicago for even longer. From Wordnik.com. [Alden Loury: The Elkhart Double Standard] Reference
It would be a terrific boost to my mental health if I were able to detach from this hard-luck team. From Wordnik.com. [Americans Are Die-Hard Fans, Too] Reference
Of course Republicans didn't corner the market on hard-luck pasts or swashbuckling survivor stories. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Shapiro: What's Your Story?] Reference
But for his 33 years in Congress, his overriding focus has been the revival of his hard-luck hometown. From Wordnik.com. [How Lawmaker Rebuilt] Reference
They also are faced with a real hard-luck life cycle reminiscent of what the old lost generation knew. From Wordnik.com. [Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069] Reference
I was an autistic child, and I'm still narcissistic enough to be virtually immune to hard-luck stories. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
Most are career minor leaguers with no place to go, but the league will feature some hard-luck standouts. From Wordnik.com. [A League Of Their Own] Reference
The writer Henry Roth was a tortured, hard-luck case who at the end life enjoyed an unexpected redemption. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Roth's Posthumous Novel 'An American Type' Published After New Yorker Editor 'Quarried' 1,900 Page Manuscript] Reference
Ms. Jarrin is part of a hard-luck group of jobless Americans whose members have taken to calling themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Long-Term Unemployed Face World Without The Lifeline Of Benefits] Reference
Rae drew mostly from her latest album, "The Sea," which is easy-listening music with a hard-luck backstory. From Wordnik.com. [In concert: Corinne Bailey Rae at 9:30 club] Reference
It doesn't mean that I am soft, and that everybody who has a hard-luck story, I'm just going to turn them loose. From Wordnik.com. [‘This Is Who Mike Huckabee Is’] Reference
In response, Rep. Musgrave has sought to reshape her image with a television spot about her hard-luck childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Endangered Colorado Republican] Reference
He passed the gift along, because he took in any kid with a hard-luck story and not much chance of breaking out. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Given hard-luck stories like that, it's hard for some to feel sympathetic for the corporate brass's poor-mouthing. From Wordnik.com. [Business's Killer I.O.U.] Reference
It pushed Matusz (2-7) into the hard-luck, seven-loss club with Orioles starters Kevin Millwood and Jeremy Guthrie. From Wordnik.com. [Orioles fall to Mets, 3-1, despite strong start from Brian Matusz] Reference
At a June hearing on long-term unemployment, Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.) also trotted out the hard-luck business owner. From Wordnik.com. [Unemployment Extension Standoff, Day 36: Blaming The Unemployed] Reference
We'll share his journey from hard-luck orphan to now presidential candidate to be straight ahead on AMERICAN MORNING. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006] Reference
This is one of two marquee matches of the quarterfinals, pitting the hard-luck Netherlands against the juggernauts of Brazil. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Haydock: World Cup: Quarterfinals Preview] Reference
Two seasons later the hard-luck Cardinals are doing something quite uncharacteristic – playing for a Super Bowl championship. From Wordnik.com. [Questions for: Michael Bidwill] Reference
Plans to capitalize on Mr. Jackson's global fame have been offered before in this hard-luck city on the shores of Lake Michigan. From Wordnik.com. [City Aims to Shed 'Bad' Image With a Jackson Center] Reference
Judge Urbina's decision certainly makes that more probable, even if it is disguised in the exceptional, hard-luck case of the Uighurs. From Wordnik.com. [The Terrorists Next Door] Reference
There's not a man or boy comes in that I do not see, and I mingle with them and get their hard-luck stories, also their good-luck ones. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Ranney] Reference
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