Word: flukes
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Still, everyone tried for a while to make the marriage work. With not a single Republican on their side, Democrats risked much by passing Clinton's bold package of tax hikes in 1993. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, a freshman elected by a fluke from a G.O.P. district, reluctantly cast the vote that put it over the top in the House. Republicans on the other side of the chamber waved their hankies at her and chanted, "Bye-bye, Margie." (Sure enough, she was gone in the next election, along with many other Democrats who had come to town on Clinton's coattails...
Tomorrow's 1:00 p.m. contest will show Harvard character and will also show whether last week's bludgeoning was a fluke or something Harvard fans should get used to. Murphy seems resigned to the fact that things will be different from last year's 9-1 season, but he expects Harvard to play hard and be competitive...
...kind of a fluke goal," Sarles said. "Things got messy in front of the net, and Anya couldn't really see. [Donohue] scooped...
...feel that last year wasn't such a fluke. Now I can look at people and say I've done it again," he said. "Having the experience last year really helped me in this match. I was very relaxed out there...
...Early in the 1992 presidential campaign, he says that "it was simply a fluke that I wasn't called" to serve in the Vietnam War. "I was just lucky, I guess," he shrugs. Clinton also says he "never received any unusual or favorable treatment" that helped him avoid the draft...