Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DAVID W. FLUKE Sussex...
...British must trade to eat, and there was general rejoicing last year when Britain sold enough goods to increase its share of worldwide exports for the first time since the late 1940s. Economists rushed to predict that this year would be even better. But 1963 proved to be a fluke, and 1964 has been anything but good for British trade. Last week the government announced that Britain's trade balance showed a discouraging deficit of $143 million in August-bringing to $930 million the deficit for the first eight months of the year. Because so much British money...
Vesper was all but ignored until it beat Harvard by two lengths in the semi-final heats on Friday, and even then many experts tagged that Vesper victory a fluke. It wasn...
...only by a few percentage points to be sure: Phils .605, San Francisco Giants .600. And strange things do happen in the spring. But the 1964 Phillies are no fluke. Unlike the fence-busting Giants (10 home runs), the Phillies get their runs in sprinkles on singles, rely on sound defense, tight pitching, plus the old-fashioned virtue of team spirit. The urge to win, says Manager Gene Mauch, is "like a big infection," and last week the Phils were breaking out all over. They shut out Pittsburgh 2-0, dropped a protested game to the Pirates...
Even Crimson fans hated to see the brilliant DeBolt defeated by such a fluke, for the side-armed fastballer had been magnificent all afternoon. After the first inning, in which both he and Del Rossi had pitched their way into and out of bases loaded threats, he had been practically invulnerable. Both pitchers permitted five hits apiece, and a tough scorer might easily have called most of these safeties errors. Del Rossi is now 5-1, DeBolt...