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stroke
(redirected from stroke of good luck)

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``That was a humongous stroke of good luck,'' Russell said.
Getting hired there was a stroke of good luck for a kid from Wisconsin (even if the job offer had resulted from a fancy social connection), and I beamed all of a twenty-two-year-old's energy at the opportunity.
As it turns out, her first stroke of good luck occurred when a sympathetic nun at her Catholic high school, aware that Stritch's parents would frown upon their daughter's stage-door dreams, arranged for her to take up lodgings at a New York City convent--a convenient and highly respectable base from which the girl was able to enroll in acting classes.
 
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