Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover Jinx...
TIME cover jinx still seems to be working. Latest casualties: Husband Kimmel, Fedor von Bock...
...contest with the Indians last Wednesday, both the slugging and the fielding had improved to a surprising degree. Three scintillating double-plays were pulled off by the infielders, and at bat the team chalked up ten good wallops, so there is hope that the Crimson has finally broken the jinx, and is on the upgrade. If Waldstein continues in his present form, and if the fielding and batting up-swing continues, the home forces have an excellent chance of adding another tiger-pelt to the one they have already snagged this season...
...story has been told innumerable times of how the Indians can never break the thirty-year streak of Soldiers Field defeats and that, as superior as they may appear before the gun, the jinx will again return to black cat them. But this spring the most loyal Cambridge prophets are wary of the mounting liabilities their favorites must overcome...
...large number of fairly equal men on a squad is always a trouble brewer, but with the Yardling oarsmen it has turned out to be a first-class jinx. Beginning right after the vacation, Love tried every possible combination to build up a winning boat, but the crews that looked good on paper the night before could never beat their second-seeded rivals, and the number-two boat had an uncanny knack of winning...