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chancy
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The cruel chanciness of the affliction suggests Camus and Kafka, the deterioration of morality under isolated conditions recalls Lord of the Files, while the governmental cruelty can't help but remind us of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
JOHN CRUICKSHANK Los Angeles Times GOOD/EXCELLENT "[A]ccomplished historian Margaret MacMillan draws together the colorful strands of the drama, with all its inherent chanciness and tension.
However, given Indian's size, his assigned cruising grounds and the chanciness of prize taking, he had a goodly number of captures and reasonable luck in the percentage of those captures which proved to be "good and lawful prize".
 
 
 
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