"It was my good fortune to be assigned the problem of designing a lapel pin for conference identification," Mr. McLaughlin wrote in "Origin of the Emblem and Other Recollections of the 1945 U.N. Conference," which he published in 1995.
I had the good fortune to be assigned to work for two weeks with a kind German civilian engineer.
The tragedy here is of a ruined mind, too noble and smart for the swamp of politics yet unable to shirk the responsibility that fortune has mercilessly assigned.
In 1936 Fortune magazine's editors assigned a relatively unknown and disgruntled staff writer named James Agee to travel to Alabama for the summer and chronicle the lives of sharecroppers.
The plaintiffs had the extreme good fortune of having Judge Terry Lewis randomly assigned to their case.
Art has often been assigned the task of beautifying a fortune not so prettily acquired, and perhaps that's how Emma and her family understood her vocation.
The tale of the unpublished article began in 1936 when Fortune editors grew interested in tenant farmers and assigned the task to Agee, then a staff writer in his late 20s.
"Then they will be assigned a principal operator rate, and that will cost a fortune.
Then random mutations are assigned to each by the spin of a "wheel of fortune", while changes in the environment are represented by the changing height of the canopy.
As part of the United Nations team in Haiti in 1995, I had the good fortune of working with a squad of 11 Special Forces soldiers, who had been assigned to keep my province secure.
