Word: hard-luck
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This place shouldn't be called Harvard. Rather Hard-luck University. Just check the stats on this year alone...
Mann, however, ran away with the award for Worst Individual Costume. The eight-year veteran came dressed as a hard-luck, mediocre, straight-ahead kicker, the same costume he's been pathetically wearing for eight years...
...things aren't bad enough already, Mother Nature insisted on getting her kicks in on the Crimson baseball team yesterday, cutting short the Harvard-Tufts game with some rain and leaving the hard-luck homestanders with a 4-1 seven-inning loss to the visiting Jumbos...
...self-styled presidential impersonator does impressions of Van Buren, Madison and Polk without ever changing his voice. On a program featuring hard-luck stories, a contestant with a pain fully stooped back is awarded a free trip to the top of the Statue of Liberty...
Died. Ezzard Charles, 54, hard-luck heavyweight boxing champion from 1949 to 1951; after a seven-year bout with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative muscular disease; in Chicago. A superb tactician, Charles took the heavyweight crown from Jersey Joe Walcott in 1949, but even then he faced an uphill battle for popularity. It became steeper when he ended a comeback try, outpointing the aging Joe Louis in 15 rounds in 1950. Knocked out a year later by Walcott, Charles made several comeback attempts before slipping into obscurity and penury...