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Word: flukes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school senior last year, Ellison didn't plan to attend Harvard--in fact, she says she applied last year "just on a fluke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First-Year Ellison Makes Harvard Work | 10/5/1996 | See Source »

...defense is just trying to do its job," Kacyvenski said. "We try to do the best we can and take it one week at a time. We want to prove to other people that we're not a fluke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Opens Home Season vs. Lafayette Today | 10/5/1996 | See Source »

Back on September 20, the defending Ivy League champions blasted one of the leagues' up-and-coming teams, Cornell, 5-0. A bit of a fluke? Well, last weekend, Princeton trashed Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Dominates Ivies, Harvard Consistent | 10/4/1996 | See Source »

...putting it all together on the field against Columbia, Harvard has its first opportunity to show the Ivy League that the only fluke in last year's season was that it didn't get an NCAA berth...

Author: By Dena J. Springer, | Title: Columbia Is First League Test For Ivy Contending W. Soccer | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

Like so many spinal-cord injuries, Reeve's resulted from a fluke accident. Originally, he was not even headed for the riding event in Culpeper; he had signed up to enter an event in Vermont when friends persuaded him to change his plans. After Vermont, he had intended to go to Ireland to make the TV mini-series Kidnapped, produced by Francis Ford Coppola. He just thought he would do one more event on his new horse, Eastern Express, called Buck, a 12-year-old American Thoroughbred gelding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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