Word: hexed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago, in a "meaningless" league game that did not effect the league standings and had no bearing on the championship, the Lions had worked their old hex on the Browns, winning the game, in a driving snowstorm, by 14 to 10. Brilliant Quarterback Bobby Layne (TIME, Nov. 29), passing as if it were a calm, dry day, completed six passes in the closing minutes to put over the winning touchdown. This "preview," as it turned out, was highly deceptive. On the day of the championship this week, when they came to grips on the same field...
Despite the hex on the "Wreck of the Housatonic," the Outing Club will go ahead with plans to take the canoe on other trips this Spring...
Both shot 70s on the first round. Hogan, playing his usual deliberate, calculating game, added another 70. Snead, more flamboyant and erratic, shot a dazzling 67, for a three-stroke lead. Sharpshooting Sam, not forgetting the usual Hogan hex, was nevertheless bubbling: "I'm riding a hunch that's almost infallible. Almost every time I play the short holes in par, or better, I win. And I'm three under par right now. I've had four deuces, three threes and a four...
...after Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, with the protection of his Senator's privilege, denounced Pearson on the floor of the Senate as a "Communist tool," and called for a boycott on Adam Hats (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951). Last week Pearson finally seemed to have beaten the McCarthy hex. Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid) signed him to a 52-week radio & TV contract, effective in April. But Pearson admitted that his new radio pay will be "less than half" his old $5,500 a week...
...Famed heretofore for its barns replete with hex signs and as a summer home for such Broadway wits & wights as George S. Kaufman, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Dorothy Parker, Moss Hart...