Word: jinx
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...Snap the Jinx...
Keeping the pressure on, the icewomen's strong forechecking finally paid off when Sue Yunick picked up the rebound of Julie Starr's blast from the point and stuffed it under a sprawling Whitcomb. Harvard had broken the jinx, ending their 68-minute scoring drought against...
...general sense, parity means balance and equality; in Ivy Title jargon, it means a toss-up. There is no consensus on championship squad, although many tentatively bestow the early-season jinx on Princeton...
...even amoral mood, with his sense of justice out of commission. Or, agnostically, luck is the collision of the random with human biography; naturally, human intelligence resents and resists the inexplicable random, and so attributes it to imps, dybbuks, wood sprites, gods of the volcano-all the subdeities of jinx...
...Crimson finally broke the Big Green jinx. None of the members of the Harvard women's tennis team, not even its coach, had ever beaten Dartmouth. That is, until yesterday, when they eked out a 6-3 victory in windy Hanover...