Word: fluke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before Whitley can start planning an early Thanksgiving trip home, the Crimson must prove that last month's victory over the Minutemen was no fluke...
Dear Marie: I watched with delight as the Washington Redskins annihilated the New York Giants this past Sunday. In your opinion, is this just a fluke or an actual trend? --Wondering in Winthrop...
...muscles the thing would have sailed a quarter of a mile. Astonished observers in Central Park-the kind of place one would find a javelin or two lying around untended-would ask to see it done again. Why not? After a few more titanic tosses, just to show a fluke was not involved, a phone call to a proper authority, a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee, would have been made...
Barring a major fluke. Carter's man, former Senator George M. McGovern, will not be the man to provide our leadership, but Carter intends to help put him up for nomination anyway...
...prime rate would move up a bit more in the coming months, to 13% or 13.5%, and then level off. That would be enough, the economists forecast, to moderate growth. The blistering 8.8% rate of rise in the gross national product in the first quarter was something of a fluke, caused in part by a rapid buildup of inventories. By the fourth quarter, G.N.P. growth is expected to slow to a more sustainable 3.5% pace...