Word: jinxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Avoiding the sophomore jinx with ease, Countryman turned in an impressive performance at this year's Easterns with personal bests in the 200 and 500 freestyle races and another NCAA qualifying time...
This play may carry a jinx. Each the infrequent attempts to stage it in the U.S. in the past quarter-century has proved monumentally inert, and the present production at Broadway's Circle in the Square is no exception. Borkman is a wintry drama, a sort of autopsy blanched ruined lives...
Rose Bowl, January 1, at Pasadena: Will Bo Schembechler's 9 2 Michigan Wolverines finally break the bowl jinx against Pac-5 winner Washington...