Velardo's pho was deemed too gingery, but his pulled pork, braised with chili and beer, offered plenty of succor with its spice.
Three novels released this spring find Zelda in bleak circumstances, and their authors offer various sorts of succor.
The army, once the source of Mr. Musharraf's power, has offered little in the way of succor, apart from some armed security.
In June, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who became a billionaire by plunging into the steel industry simultaneously with Bush offering it succor, said that "since we are the world's largest importer of steel, we're the main victim of the overcapacity" in the global steel industry.
But they are hidden from view at the Khanabad air base, offering little succor to sagging Samarkand.
On occasion, his work has been the instrument less of succor than of practical help.
"The precious metals took a great deal of succor from that," Mr. Steel said.
In these anxious times, the embattled masses are resorting to all manner of succor.
Robert S. Miller Jr., the chief executive of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, would be no source of succor, either.
Workplaces and cars have plenty of resonance, but the home is special: hearth, womb -- place of succor, not bewilderment.
And he provided his usual dose of succor for his team.
