Word: jinxed
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...girl, the summit of social acceptance is election into Sub-Deb Club or Jinx Club, sorority-like organizations not connected officially with the school. Hi-Y and Torch Club for boys are sponsored by the school, but membership is also selective...
...active Alumni Association presents its annual Carnival. As soon as textbooks are distributed for the year, it is time for football Homecoming Week. Beginning with a parade and bonfire, the celebration winds up with the crowning of the homecoming queen and her court--invariably members of Sub-Deb or Jinx...
Yovicsin's first year has been a remarkable one. He survived the tireless battery of questions from the local press, the scepticism of many, a discouraging wave of injuries which resulted in something of a "jinx" year for the football team, and the demands made from both the Ivy Towers and the clubrooms. Yet he can still smile shyly from behind his desk in the Indoor Athletic Building and say honestly, "I'm certainly looking forward to next year...
...Buddy Cole and his wife Clare, both 40, waited for their final divorce decree on the seventh floor of the Hall of Records, rushed down to the first floor as soon as they got it and were remarried within half an hour, explained: "That marriage was something of a jinx, and we wanted to start all over with a clean slate...
...soccer team faces Williams today with a full-strength forward line; injuries which Captain Jim Shue said kept the line from realizing its great scoring potential in the three games so far have cleared up, leaving the team free to break the jinx which has plagued it through ties with Tufts, Cornell, and Amherst...