Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps Murphy's evenhanded, reflective assessment of a team that looked like it hadn't ever heard of any Harvard Stadium jinx was on target after all. Yes, the Crimson made mistakes in Saturday's opener, but they also showed flashes of what might be even better things to come...
...Crimson will look to shake off its scoring jinx when it travels to Boston College Tuesday afternoon before heading to New Haven this weekend for an important Ivy showdown with Yale.CrimsonHenry G. WeiGETTING AHEAD: Junior striker NAOMI MILLER heads the ball upfield...
...CANDIDATE] FRED THOMPSON TENNESSEE SENATOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] His $6.5 million request to investigate 1996 campaign abuses [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] No longer a jinx against movie stars in the White House [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] John Wayne [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] That guy in The Hunt for Red October
...brilliance consists in this: second terms are famous for being times of dreary brownout. In music it is called rallentando, a gradual slackening of tempo, a winding down. Dwight Eisenhower's presidency, for example, slipped into senescence in the late '50s. The jinx falls especially on those Presidents who return to the White House on landslides--Richard Nixon, for example, who annihilated George McGovern in 1972, and then, less than two years later, was forced to resign, a step ahead of the Senate's tar and feathers. Lyndon Johnson's great victory in 1964 over Barry Goldwater did not make...
Providence was a new challenge and a perfect opportunity for Harvard to break out of the non-league jinx...