Word: flukes
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...change in U.S. attitude had been produced mainly by Russian abuse of the veto. On 46 occasions the U.S.S.R. had demonstrated that the Security Council was helpless. The Korean decision itself was made possible by a fluke; the Russians who had taken a walk probably would never again repeat their blunder of boycotting the Council...
...pout-mouthed Jake La Motta is a sturdy fighter with an in & out record who currently holds the middleweight championship of the world. He won it on a fluke 15 months ago from the late Marcel Cerdan (TIME, June 27, 1949), who fought, after the first round, with the handicap of a torn shoulder muscle. In Detroit, where Jake had the luck to win his title, he defended it last week against Frenchman Laurent Dauthuille. Jake was lucky again...
...Clyde Wells was unable to make the trip. Joan was runner-up to Wells this year. Her coach, Fred Etchen, once a pupil of the great Annie Oakley and captain of the 1924 U.S. Olympic trapshoot team, was inclined to regard Joan's Annie Oakley feat as a fluke. "It wouldn't happen again in a thousand years," he said. In the 51 years of the Grand American Trapshoot, certainly, nothing like it had ever happened before...
After losing three out of four races this year to Preakness Winner Hill Prince, Middleground, winner of the Kentucky Derby, was beginning to look like something of a fluke. As 39,000 spectators craned toward the starting gate at New York's Belmont Park last week, Hill Prince was the odds-on (17-20) choice to wrap up the rubber match of 1950's top three-year-old races...
After B.C. had scored once in the top of the first without the benefit of a hit, the home team took a 2 to 1 lead in its half of the inning on a single by John Caulfield, two wild pitches, Cliff Crosby's fluke double, and a muffed infield...