Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diefenbaker won his first case on a fluke, he quickly picked up the knack of winning others on his merits. Of 20 murder cases that he tried, only two clients went to the hangman. "He's a spellbinder before a jury," says an associate. "He would start his defense by working on one member of the jury, pitching to him exclusively. When he had him, he would start on the second and so on until he had the whole jury won." Says Diefenbaker: "I just chat with the jury...
...major problem Architect Breuer had to solve was wished on him by a few fluke misses by the Luftwaffe and the decision of the Rotterdam planning commission to incorporate the beneficiaries of those misses-two surviving buildings-into the pattern of the widened street, making it necessary to bring the building line forward at each street corner. To avoid an L-shaped building, Breuer hit on the idea of letting sculpture take care of the bulge...
Meyner's strategy-that of preventing a big sympathy vote for Kefauver-paid off. Last week when the votes were counted, Estes Kefauver won precisely one-half of one delegate vote-and that by a voting-machine fluke. The Meyner slate took the other 35½. Kefauver did little better in New Jersey's preferential vote. Running unopposed on the Democratic ballot, he received 110,000 votes against 329,000 for President Eisenhower on the Republican side...
...varsity's lead was only 2 to 0 at the end of the first period, and up to this point Dartmouth still had a chance to show that it's near-upset of Boston College had been no fluke. But sophomore Bob Owen, playing his best game to date, started a flood of five Crimson goals in the second period with his backhander...
...forward combinations, tested with success in Saturday's win over Dartmouth, gallantly rose to the occasion. Bob Owen, Lyle Guttu, and Pete Summers, encouraged by a fluke screen shot score earlier by Dennis Little all batted the puck past hapless Providence goalie Eddie Hornstein in the closing ten minutes to pull the surprise win. The Friars upset the Crimson in a pre-Christmas Garden match by a score exactly the reverse of tonight...