Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turnabout resulted from a ludicrously simple one-word error in El Caribe last Oct. 27. By an unexplained fluke, a picture caption in that issue mentioned that flowers had been placed before Trujillo's tomb (tumba); the word should have been bust (busto). It was a fatal error, Ornes explained last week, because Trujillo "is very vain and superstitious. He thinks he is immortal, and the worst thing you can do is suggest his death." When he saw the word tumba in print, Ornes said to his U.S.-born wife: "This is the end of everything...
...found a simple answer: beat the Reds at their own game, and train harder than they do. Amateur Dave Stephens, 25, a professional milkman, ran away from Hungary's somber Sandor Iharos in a 3-mile exhibition race. His 25-yd. victory in 13:37.6 was no fluke. Only four days before, the "Flying Milkman" beat the holder of five world records- by the same margin in a 5,000-meter...
...Crimson, which caglly allowed Oregon to expend its energy near the middle of the field, but as soon as its goal was threatened, summoned enough resources to repulse the Westerners. Oregon rooters, however, claimed their team had decisively outplayed the Easterners and had only lost by a fluke...
Finally, Yale had its day. There's a new event in swimming this year. Instead of the three-stroke medley relay, they have a four-stroke one, with both the butterfly and breast strokes. So Yale set the record in it. It wasn't a fluke. Yale is good. But the event is so new that almost any team could swim it and set a record. Even before Esther Williams got the times from the judges, she said. "The old record was ..." The whole Yale team applauded. But Miss Williams misread the times...
Bill Thompson, Al Gordon, Bill Gillen, Lawrence Jacquith, Henry Brown, John Demos, and Howard Katz finished in this order behind Benjamin and Schlaeppi. B.U.'s vaunted threat in Warren Tyler and Henry Dionisio, turned out to be a fluke when they finished tenth and 11th, respectively...