Word: luckier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-term capital gains (25%) tax on the profit. If the well was dry, they could write off the whole cost as a loss, thus cut down taxable income. Though many a hopeful had hit nothing but sand and salt, from Texas to Utah last week a handful of luckier stars had struck it rich...
They rode up & down the cliff in ancient funiculars (the "Inclines"), jammed the buses and trolley cars which filled the cobblestone, alley-like streets. The luckier and better-paid lived in nearby suburbs. Most of the wealthy had fled to the distant suburbs of Sewickley Heights, Fox Chapel, or to Rolling Rock, 50 miles to the east in the mountains near the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
Stefan, a 54-year-old ornamental ironworker, was luckier than most of his fellow D.P.s: he had relatives in the U.S. His brother Martin runs a bar in Omaha and cousin Karl Stefan is a Republican Congressman from Nebraska. When he got to Omaha, brother Martin took him in and provided for him and his daughter. Last month his luck was even better-the Omaha Steel Wrorks needed an ornamental ironworker and Stefan...
...could see before me the whole treatment of the Negro people in the South. The fact that I had been luckier than most people in education and income did not shield...
...Kidding. Because the world champion Cleveland Indians had fewer weak spots than the rest, they were favorites to be the American League champions again. The Indians had been shrewder, and luckier, in filling another of baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...