Word: luckier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holly Martins betrays the child-murderer Harry Lime because he comes to value the friendship of mankind, or, more abstractly, the friendship of doing right, over that of a single person. That, too, takes guts. Huck Finn, who had both God and friendship on his side, was luckier...
...with a view over his winter brown fields, Johnson declared: "All that people like the Russians understand is raw, naked power. I just hope the American farmer doesn't have to be the goat." Most Eureka farmers have not yet sold 75% of their 1979 crops. But Johnson was luckier than his neighbors: he contracted to sell his record 1979 harvest of corn and soybeans even before the seed was in the ground, when prices were fairly high. Just a few days after Carter's announcement, Johnson loaded part of his production, about 8,000 bu. of soybeans, aboard...