Word: flukes
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Dingman said Kirkland’s run of abbreviated senior tutor terms is a “fluke,” and that most tutors stay for the extent of their three-year appointments, with many accepting offers of two-year extensions...
...openly they talked, they discussed, they delivered discourses. It was no cacophony, but it seemed strange. On a Saturday, with attendance tripled or quadrupled, the noise wouldn’t have been so bizarre—but on a Friday? Maybe, I thought, it was just an unfortunate fluke...
...Half a century ago, Chairman Mao Zedong, himself a native of Hunan province, declared war on the diseases ravaging China's countryside. One of his major battles was against the fearsome Schistosoma fluke, which infected 12 million Chinese in 1949 and, according to the World Health Organization (who), is still the world's second-most-debilitating parasitic disease, after malaria. Employing troops of pesticide-wielding workers to eradicate snails and offering free health checkups and medicine for all those living in the schistosomiasis-prone Yangtze River region, China slashed the number of victims to 2.5 million...
...Harvard women’s swimming and diving team took its first step toward proving that last year’s second-place finish at the Ivy Championships was no fluke by thoroughly routing Brown Friday evening at Blodgett Pool, winning...
Silently, and on the helmet of an unknowing Cornell defender who hadn’t even known what he’d done, to boot. In a fluke collision of hard Riddell plastic to golden right hand, there was an impact that Harvard players still have trouble grappling with...