Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time flat. At a svelte 270, his friendly, full-moon face piked on a Pillsbury Doughboy frame, he looks like a defrocked Friar Tuck. More important, he has underlined another aspect of his personality: that of class clown. He woos the camera like an avid freshman on a fluke date with the senior prom queen. He guffaws, he blusters, he bats his eyes, he makes kissy- face. He will do anything to keep you watching...
...played very, very well," Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton said yesterday, repeating his post-game mantra as-of-late. "If we hadn't give them some fluke goals, we would have won. I was happy with our play...
While he once said that his not being drafted was "just a fluke," Clinton has acknowledged that he used an ROTC program to temporarily avoid the draft and tried to used his political connections to win an exemption from serving...
...wanted to show the Crimson's fans that this year's team was for real, that last weekend's overtime win against highly-ranked Columbia was no fluke. But he was missing Craig "Pepper" Brill and Tanner Sly, his two best defenders, and facing a coaching legend in the University of Connecticut's Joe Morrone. Morrone, the cagey godfather of Storrs, Conn., was entering his 500th game and had compiled an amazing 309-143-47 record. He hasn't had a losing season in 15 years...
...York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center described five instances of people who suffer from an AIDS-like illness and yet bear no trace of HIV anywhere in their body. When a similar case was reported at last year's AIDS conference in Florence, it was dismissed as a fluke. This year several scientists in the audience stood up to tell of other cases of non-HIV AIDS, bringing the total to about 30 -- a number that is small but impossible to ignore...