Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team that gives Penn a hard game has to be strong," Harvard coach Bruce Munro said. "The Quakers coach told me his team had to go all out to beat Princeton. It was no fluke game...
Shoe Black. So it came to pass that the Mets found themselves competing in the world championship of baseball. Their foes were the strongest, most arrogant players of all-the gang from Menckenville. "A fluke," said the wise men of Las Vegas. They called the Mets 8-5 underdogs. And, as predicted, the Mets lost the first game, 4-1. All the talk was of bubbles bursting and of the explosion of impossible dreams. "We told you so," said the smart-money bettors. But the Mets were undaunted; they refused to heed the doomsayers...
Even then, it was considered a bit of a fluke. Said Promoter Jack Kramer: "When Laver turns pro, he's going to get beaten just like every other amateur champion who turned pro." Sure enough, Laver lost 19 of his first 21 pro matches. Even when he began to win consistently, he played in the shadow of his countryman, Ken Rosewall...
...figure was heightened by a book keeping fluke. Americans have been making large deposits of dollars in Eu rope, where they have commanded interest rates as high as 12.5%. U.S. banks, pinched for funds, have borrowed many of these dollars to re-lend in the U.S. These "turnaround" dollars count as a capital outflow when deposited in Europe, but do not count as an off setting inflow when re-loaned in the U.S. Government economists say this distortion may have accounted for $2 billion of the $5.5 billion first half pay ments deficit...
Panoff, filling in for Howie Freedman, has been plagued throughout the season with knee injuries. Imrie will be seeking to regain his winning touch, which had kept him undefeated during his Harvard career until last week's fluke defeat against Columbia. Leading his opponent 16-7, Imrie was pinned in the last 15 seconds...