Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father and mother were tomato farmers on Cat Island in the Bahamas. Once or twice a year, they went to Florida in a small sailboat to sell their tomatoes, and on one of these trips their eighth child, Sidney, was born, thus becoming an American citizen by a fluke that turned out to be lucky. The tomato farm died in an agricultural disaster year. At 15, Sidney was coasting toward delinquency. His father, deciding that the boy's American citizenship might save him, sent him to live with a brother in Miami...
...final try to nip Harvard's Ray Frieden by 3/4 in. for second place and a crucial three points. Crimson junior Art Crossdale had taken first place in the event with a 53 ft., 7 1/2 in. put. But such misfortunes don't make the Army win a fluke. The Harvard athletes had their moments...
Croasdale ranks as the favorite in the 35-1b. weight throw, a billing he failed to live up to last weekend. But at Ithaca, the Crimson junior was amazingly foul-prone, and the likelihood of a repeat o that fluke showing tonight is slight. Northeastern's Bill Corsetti is likely to provide the chief opposition tonight...
Despite Liston's injury, Clay's victory was no fluke; the quick and classy Clay was more than a match for Liston. He obviously carried rounds one, four and six with a combination of dazzling footwork, and a hall of deceptive jabs...
...need for a History library has been felt for a long time," Palmer said. He explained that it was "just a fluke" that there has been none since the books in the special History, Government, and Economics reading room were absorbed into the Lamont collection...