Word: flukes
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...across the plate. Essayan led off with a single over second into center. Vince Moravec flied out. Tom Sullivan then pasted a mighty triple over the right flelder's head scoring Essayan. Bill Harford followed with a single and drove in Sullivan. But the inning was ended with a fluke double play, as Senseney hit a long ball to right, and Page made a brilliant catch and doubled Harford off first...
...motley adventurers, only a brief land boom for Free State farmers. Established companies hold mineral rights or options on almost all of the fertile grainlands, and there are few surface outcrops. If, as some Canadian and London experts warned that it might, the single borehole assay proved a fluke, thousands of speculators and small investors might see millions in paper profits disappear as fast as a summer shower on the parched Orange Free State fields...
Schistosomiasis is caused by a small fluke found in pools and running streams which in a matter of seconds burrows through the skin and infects the individual. All water found to contain these flukes is posted and personnel is warned not to bathe, wade or wash in it. The flukes, which usually attack the intestines and liver, are rarely lethal. They may cause a fever at first, followed by steady, prolonged discomfort and ill health. One bad schistosomiasis area is Okinawa...
...lays his career in shipbuilding to a fluke. At 14, a cousin suggested that they take the entrance examinations for Annapolis. Young Ferguson, who had given no thought to the Navy until then, agreed. A week later, he passed and was appointed...