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Charlie Brown, the hard-luck kid himself, stepped up to the plate and hit the game winning home...
Several spills and seven Winter Olympics races without a medal had put the speed skater in the express lane to sports oblivion. But the hard-luck kid from Wisconsin kept on trying, and in Lillehammer, one liberating 1,000-m performance earned him a gold medal and turned him into a symbol of deserving victory...
Coming into the dual against the Saints, the Crimson wanted a win bad. It was seeking to avenge last's season's grueling 7-4 defeat to the Saints. It was looking to rebound from a hard-luck 2-0 loss to Dartmouth the night before. And it was looking to take advantage of a home-rink advantage before its next two games, both on the road...
Barely a step above the denizens of the streets are those who haunt Moscow's hard-luck flea markets. At these outdoor bazaars, the bottom of the city's economic food chain -- mainly pensioners who brew "tea" with shredded carrots and can't remember the last time they bought a new scrap of clothing -- peddle their household goods to pay for tomorrow's potatoes. A short stroll from Moscow's Kiev train station, the sidewalks teem with faucets, shower fittings, cartons of milk, boxes of laundry powder, lamps, washbasins, doorknobs, frying pans, toothpaste, glue, string and old pairs of shoes...
...nothing compared to the associated with an end-of-the-season loss to Army at the North Division Championships on October 30. The top four teams at the tournament go on to Easterns and, having beaten most of the teams in the course of the regular season, even the hard-luck Crimson seemed likely to make...