Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small (only 1¼ ton) Beluga whale in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952), but has been thwarted in efforts to get his electrodes into the bigger grey whale off California. Last week he was within a heartbeat of an equally desirable prize, and missed by a fluke...
...Illinois (6-3-1)-overwhelmed faltering Northwestern, 28-0, to give retiring Coach Ray Eliot a going-away present, prove that its 9-6 victory over Wisconsin the week before was no fluke...
...discovers that the same car was used in the payroll job. Puzzled, he rushes off to testify about something or other at Old Bailey, but the case gets clearer when he checks out a lead on the late inspector's lady friend. On her premises he gets a fluke chance to catch the main man with cash in hand. And so on until well after midnight, when the chief inspector arrives home at last -coat torn, temper frayed, and bloody well ready for a little appreciation. "George!" his wife hisses with disgust. "You've been drinking...
...Free Opinion." In Independent editorials, Herter crusaded for clean government, urged the U.S. to "shed its isolationist fears" and join the League of Nations. In 1929-30, after selling his interest in the Independent, he lectured at Harvard on international relations. Then, by what he calls a "pure fluke," he got into politics...
...Three Princes of Serendip) of finding good things without having to seek them. He has never sought a new job, says Herter, because he always liked whatever he was doing; he was often urged or invited. "Almost every step I've taken," he says, "was a pure fluke...