Word: luckier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wyzanski did appreciate the significance of Goldfine's gift-bearing, though he was tolerant enough last week of Sherman Adams' failure to understand. "I was luckier than Sherman Adams," he said, "because I had it read into the record...
...jungled distances in sometimes-scheduled airliners, river boats, buses and ancient taxis. When they did find something to write about, they had the problem of getting it to Singapore. The Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech finally had to send one dispatch by ship, a two-day trip. Luckier newsmen used the rebels' clandestine radio transmitter in Padang, sent out hand-tapped signals that were monitored by the news agencies in Singapore, 300 miles away...
...Lives of great men all remind us friends .will make them less sublime." Thus most literary memoirs might be described, but James Joyce was lucky in his friends: at worst, they merely carved their initials on the giant oak of his literary reputation. He was even luckier in his late brother, Stanislaus. With candor, insight and a remarkable lack of rancor toward the man who arrogantly dubbed him "my whetstone," Stanislaus was content to draw what is easily the best portrait of his legendary brother as a young...
...agree that this is a wise move, though naturally they are sorry to lose a family that has brought so much interesting abnormality into the village and has undergone what is described as "plenty of maturing experience lately." But the general conclusion is that the Staces have been much luckier than most families because (as an old friend says): "Tragedy is by far the best background, and every one behaves well in it; it is so worth while.'' Brothers and Sisters is similarly worth while, and those who argue that it is not as tragic as Oedipus...
Chasing Whales. Manjiro was the fisherman son of an impoverished Japanese widow. In the feudal Japan of his day, a boy of such low caste could hope for nothing except a life of toil and a full belly each day if he was lucky. But Manjiro was luckier than that. In 1841, when he was 14, the small fishing boat on which he worked was carried out to sea by a storm and drifted to an uncharted island...