odd lot

And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.

If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.

In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.

Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.

Then the enemy's howitzers and field guns had it all their own way, forcing attack to yield a lot of ground.

I have seen a lot of Bolshevik propaganda and it is not very convincing stuff.