Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overtime jinx that had plagued Harvard in the Michigan State and Columbia games sneaked in again for a third time, and another two-point loss went down in the record books...
...that the talent for the forthcoming Smoker may run from Mayor Curley to Greta Garbo, the Freshman Affairs Committee is harking back to the whoop-de-do that marked the spirited festivals of the past. The razzle-dazzle that teased through the years with Sally Rand, Beatrice Kay and Jinx Falkenberg, was conceived in an all-or-nothing spirit that merited E pennants for entertainment. Eagerly anticipating upperclass status with a yell and a holler, all Freshmen banded together to throw their shackles into the Charles and emerge with the Biggest Show Ever. They balked only at the impossible...
...Southern California, which hadn't beaten Washington on Washington's home ground in 15 years, went to Seattle and whipped the jinx by a 19-to-0 score, thereby moving one notch closer to the Rose Bowl...
...prove that they had harbored no such intentions, all 15 jockeys left the post hustling. Gordon Richards' jinx, which has kept him from winning England's greatest race in 22 attempts, was with him again. Tudor Minstrel showed briefly in front at Tattenham Corner, flattened out badly, finished fourth, out of the prize money. The winner: French-owned Pearl Diver, a 40-to-1 shot...
...into a double play. Imagine how he feels, letting his teammates down to the sound of icy silence from the stands. Soon the fellow's a neurotic. And who's the gainer? Not the other team, because as soon as they walk a guy like that, there's a jinx on them, and for all they know he'll hit a grand slam homer. Not Williams; it doesn't help his batting average. Not Lee Durocher; he's out of baseball for a while, my friends down in Brooklyn tell...