Word: luckier
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Lebanon was always as sweet and cunning and ancient and beautiful as the world. It was literate, rich, fabulous, chic as Atlantis in better days. No land was ever luckier, more cosmopolitan. If you drove in from the east, out of the deserts of Jordan, Iraq or Syria, Lebanon was the coolest, greenest, richest land in the imagination of Allah. You climbed the Lebanon Mountains, and suddenly beheld the Mediterranean. Its deep blue waters played in the eye against the snow on the tops of the mountains. The air was dense with the scent of thyme and cedar...
...with remarkable speed and efficiency, but the British point out that they were lucky. They benefited from a contingency plan, formulated in 1978 by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, for the speedy commandeering of 300 specific merchant ships from member nations in time of emergency. The British were even luckier that a substantial portion of the Royal Navy was participating in NATO exercises off Gibraltar at the time of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands. This meant that a number of vessels, almost certainly including a nuclear submarine, were stocked, manned and ready to sail. It also meant that some...
...scarcely luckier at home. Andrew's wife Millie (Sheila Allen) is something of a snob, a shrew and a slut. Millie's only gift for truth is the poisonously emasculating one of recounting her adulteries to her husband. Her current affair with a virile and popular teacher (Edmond Genest) carries its own brand of pain; her lover clearly intends to break...
...side of the plant has been down more than half the year--one week on, one week off--and the prefab corrugated steel low-rise that houses Local 425 of the United Auto Workers has been more crowded than usual. At the steel plant, they've been a little luckier; pipe orders have come in from Youngstown, Ohio, and Indiana. But the half of the mill where 2000 people, sons of the Puerto Ricans they trucked in to keep the plant running during World War II, make steel bars hasn't been running much at all. Nearly...
Abdelkader Mayouf, 24, a medical technician in the Algerian town of El Asnam, recalled his escape as he gazed upon the ruins of the modern, four-story hospital where he had worked. Mayouf had been luckier than the 300 patients who were trapped in their beds when the earthquake struck...