Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With just two minutes left to play, the big elephants evened up the score on a badly angled shot from the right side. The ball hit MacGraw's leg pads and bounced past her into the crease. The other replacement, Sue Abkowitz, followed the fluke with a little magic score of her own and the Crimson won their seventh game of the season...
Builders agree that the March performance was no fluke. With the exception of January, when one of the worst U.S. winters in a century stopped building in many parts of the nation, the market from Brentwood, Calif., to Boston has been rising for months. Builders, mortgage lenders and real estate agents are scrambling to keep up with demand. Says Jerald Ruben, president of General Realty Corp., one of the largest new-home real estate agencies in the Detroit area: "It's the most fantastic thing I've seen in 25 years." Reports Connecticut Realtor Phyllis McGovern: "The momentum...
After a short break, Lundy and Waldman teamed up to smash Yale's first doubles squad of Leeds and Matt Doyle, 7-5, 6-3. The Elis now trailed, 4-3, and it appeared as if the early Yale lead had been a fluke. The Harvard tennis bandwagon, temporarily slowed, was once again rolling, and the Crimson's fourth league victory in as many tries seemed ripe for the plucking...
Tervainen's two-stroke victory was no fluke. He brings to the tee the tactics of an overeager hammer thrower. Tervainen was the runner-up in the Massachusetts Amateur Championship this year, and won the NCAA long driving contest last year...
...that fluke start has sprouted into a successful aquatic career for the native of Guay Nabo, P.R. After competing in several AAU meets, Canales joined the Caparia Country Club under the coach Tom Forte. (The Caparia is the same club and Forte the same coach that Jane Fayer currently swims for during her vacations...