Word: flukes
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...class took upon entering the college. In spite of her smile, her eyes and tone of voice were saying, "How could this black-skinned girl score higher on the verbal than some of the students who've had more advantages than she? It must be some sort of fluke." I felt it, but I managed to smile my thanks and back off. For here at North Carolina College, social class and color were the primary criteria used in deciding status. The faculty assumed light-skinned students were more intelligent, and they were always a bit nonplussed when a dark...
Eager to show that its 2-1 overtime victory over Dartmouth three weeks ago was no fluke, the Crimson offense came out storming and quickly dampened the festive mood of the Rupert Thompson Arena. Just four minutes after the opening faceoff, career scoring leader Sara Fischer flipped a rebound by netminder Janice Ellis for her seventh goal of the season to give Harvard an early 1-0 lead...
...Last season we were too concerned with Indiana and overlooked the importance of taking things one meet at a time," Seelen says. "Princeton will not get lucky this year and catch us off guard. The entire team is prepared to prove last year's loss was a fluke...
...future, the U.S. should or would respond thus and so. The exercise is emotionally necessary, but problematical. Undoubtedly the U.S. could learn to pay closer attention to the character of the governments it supports, and undoubtedly it will. But in terms of particulars, the hostage crisis was a fluke, a historical aberration. The commonplace wisdom it offers is that anything can happen...
...power has faded from the headlines--and hence from the public consciousness and political agenda--since Three Mile Island. It is not because the industry has been substantially reformed; reactors are still the property of robber baron utility executives. And it is not because Three Mile Island was a fluke-- the sporadic news clips from places like Indian Point in New York, Yankee in Vermont, and Millstone in Connecticut, prove that the threat is nationwide...