Word: flukey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last night, coming off a road trip to Colgate and Cornell, the Crimson almost fell victim to the numbing, sleep-inducing Meehan Malaise. After staking itself to a 3-1 lead, Harvard gave up a goal on a flukey breakaway by Brown's Dan Allen and found itself ready to get decked by the feisty, if not particularly skilled, hosts...
...kids. "The males in the community who are law abiding and decent have less and less respect," says Anderson. "Today you find the hustlers out there taking time for young people." Many residents of Chicago's South Side last week grieved over the assassination of 49-year-old Willie ("Flukey") Stokes, a flamboyant drug dealer who enjoyed handing out thousands of dollars to the needy...
Harvard's record includes a loss to both Princeton and Yale at New Haven late last month, after a flukey wrong turn sent the Crimson off the racecourse...
Every time there were explanations: a flukey bucket at the buzzer by the Big Red; worrying about the Tigers and Quakers while you're playing the Bruins and Elis; remembering your losses to the Bruins and Elis when you're playing the Tigers and Quakers...