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Word: flukey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfectly representative study, but it would be impossible and dishonest to ignore the fact that almost every single response reflected the same discontents, fears, guilts. Two to three thousand women must communicate similar impressions about their sex lives and sexuality for very real reasons as opposed to a flukey coincidence. From the point of view of academic sociology. Hite's research and methods probably aren't tidy enough. But the problem of statistical skewing does not invalidate the gist of the verbal responses they elicited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hite Report | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

Horn called the whole affair a flukey day in which "the first two races were something of a crap shoot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Sailors Lose to MIT; Harvard Drops Donaghy Bowl | 10/25/1972 | See Source »

Sailing well despite flukey conditions, Division A skipper Barbie Grant, with Beth Goddard as crew, took 5 firsts in the 12 race series, and ran away with top-boat honors with only 27 points. In Division B, Janice Stroud, with Kathy Angell as crew, did even better, capturing 7 firsts and never finishing worse than third. In the twelfth race Angell took over as skipper and contributed a first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Sailors Have Frustrating Weekend; 'Cliffe Takes New England Championships | 5/2/1972 | See Source »

Kubrick's early successes were heightened journalism, always initially dependent on particular bits of recreated social reality. Now, perhaps believing that the Big Statement is the only one worth making, and that he's well qualified to make it, Kubrick's gone, after the flukey 2001, from high melodrama to melodramatic allegory. I had better feelings for his prior worst film Killer's Kiss: it had an amusingly-typed boxer hero, and interesting views of Brooklyn, of all places. Sadly, you can't work your way back to unpretentiousness. Kubrick's changed into a pseudo-intellectual's movie mogul, proclaiming...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Kubrick in Context | 3/16/1972 | See Source »

...tied it up again on a somewhat flukey goal in the final seconds of the period, but the third period was all Harvard...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Makeshift Hockey Team Tops Eagles; McManama Nets Three in 6-4 Win | 12/15/1971 | See Source »

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