Word: luckier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan news room only three men were on duty. WOR-Mutual was busy at the Polo Grounds: professional football, Dodgers v. Giants. CBS could not have been luckier: World News Today, its regular Sunday roundup from foreign points, went...
They were Poles, Austrians, Czechs, Belgians, Rumanians, Frenchmen, Italians, Swiss and Russians who had sailed from France last January, bound for Brazil. Because most of them were what the Nazis call Jews, Nazi Europe wanted no more of them. Still, they were luckier than others. They had had the money and the good fortune to get Brazilian visas, steamship passage and Vichy's permission to leave...
...innumerable obstructions, until each found the stream where it was spawned, where now it would spawn and die. If you were lucky you could see a Chinook, the biggest salmon of them all, weighing maybe 50 lb., break through a shallow rapid like a torpedo. If you were still luckier you might catch one. Because the fish come up small streams, perhaps only six feet across, you had the feeling that the salmon were running right into your field, into your playground, even into your back yard. As soon as school was out kids would run whooping and hollering down...
This leaves radio playwriting an art in a vacuum, inhabited solely by writers, producers, performers and sponsors. A sense of the vacuum sometimes reduces the writer's respect for his audience to the sponsor's commercial level. Or the writer may be luckier than most showmen ever are. He may work for a sponsor, or for a broadcasting company, liberal enough to encourage first-class, spirited work in a medium of unplumbed possibilities...
...Jacksonville, Fla., where the St. Johns River flows into the Atlantic, 53 men, women" & children on the excursion cruiser Ruby Lee were luckier. When the Ruby Lee let go a starboard plank, filled and sank in the mouth of the river, all the crew and passengers were saved. Captain S. E. Baitray sputtered: " 'Twould have been different a few minutes later . . . then we'd have been in the open...