Word: hard-luck
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...Harvard’s recent run of hard-luck losers, freshman Anthony Nutter was the latest. In his first collegiate start, Nutter held Massachusetts scoreless through the first five innings and allowed three runs over seven-plus innings of work in a 3-0 loss to the Minutemen in the opening round of the Beanpot Tournament at Fraser Field...
...Better still, she reluctantly begins to bond with her uncle. He may have neither the life-skills nor the ambition to lift himself off the road to nowhere, but he is a good-natured man with the ability to make his niece laugh, to forget, for a moment, her hard-luck life. And somehow her spunk emboldens him to free himself from the psychopathic toils of his father, the source of his and Joleen's lifelong misery (as if you hadn't guessed). There is a wonderful range to Robb's work; she's testy and vulnerable, patient and impatient...
...Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles during the worldwide Great Depression, could aptly be referred to as the hard-luck games. No other city even bid to host the Games, and fewer than half as many athletes took part in the Games as had participated in 1928. U.S. President Herbert Hoover didn't even attend the Games. That clearly didn't matter, however, to Alice Eileen Wearne, who ran the 100-m dash but did not earn a medal. Wearne went on to participate in the 1938 British Empire Games, which were held in her hometown of Sydney, finished third...
...left-center. PRINCETON 6, HARVARD 4 The Crimson scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the seventh to send the first game into extra innings, but senior Jake Bruton gave back the two runs with a throwing error in the top of the eighth and took the hard-luck loss for Harvard.The home team got a bit of luck in the bottom half of the seventh when Van Horn dropped Casey’s potential game-ending pop fly in left, allowing junior Tom Stack-Babich and senior Brendan Byrne, who had each singled, to score with the tying...
...Hard-luck New Orleans, just hit by a tornado that destroyed several dozen homes, could use a party. Some 80% of the city's hotel space is booked for Mardi Gras, which wraps...