Word: jinxed
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...Kentucky Derby post time last week, Determine and Hasty Road were back on the track. So were Correlation, the colt that ran away with the Wood Memorial the week before, and 14 other three-year-olds. The crowd, betting against the jinx that only one California-bred colt had ever won in the-previous 79 runnings of the Derby, made California-bred Correlation the 3-to-1 favorite for No. So. There was talk of another Derby jinx: no grey colt has ever won, and Kentucky-bred Determine, owned by California Auto Dealer Andrew Crevolin, was undeniably a grey...
...while it appeared that TV might escape the sudsy flood of soap operas. Almost all the original woebegone TV serials faded away in a matter of months. But Sponsor Procter & Gamble, which pays the way for eight radio soap operas, has learned how to lick the TV jinx. Explains Adman Roy Winsor of the Biow Co. advertising agency: "At first, we made the mistake of taking a single soap opera and sticking it into a 15-minute strip surrounded by other kinds of shows. It just got lost. Now we do it by block programming...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb 10--The Crimson hockey team wrapped up its third straight Pentagonal League victory here tonight while smashing Brown's aspirations for the league title and a four-year Providence jinx in a 6 to 3 victory at the Rhode Island Auditorium...
...only will the wrestlers be trying to overcome a strong team, but they will also be up against an annoying jinx...
...hockey team put together a consistently tight defense and a rapidly improving offense to break decisively a two-year post-exam period Northeastern jinx at the Garden last night. The Crimson scored its second highest total of the season, topping the Huskies...