Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major tank battle in the Sinai and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 predicting that the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, will be able to keep out of the fighting. A lot of people were hoping Kissinger would beat the week's prediction jinx...
Thus, as Trainer Lucien Laurin saddled up Secretariat for last week's 105th running of the Belmont, his nervous statement that the horse was "very good, very quiet, very wonderful" seemed a kind of incantation to ward off the "Belmont jinx." Something worked. Secretariat not only defied history-he rewrote it, in one of the most astonishing triumphs in horse-racing annals...
Harvard will be fighting a jinx today Traditionally. Army and Harvard have exchanged victories year by year, with the team playing at home winning. It's thus the Cadets turn to win Moreover Army bested Harvard in outdoor track last year and finished ahead of the Crimson the Heptagonals...
...Yale Daily News has been trying to generate some excitement with headlines like "THE GAME: 12 Year Jinx," referring to Yale's inability to win at Harvard Stadium since the Bulldog's undefeated team of 1960 smashed the Crimson 36-6. Yale's upset losses to Harvard in the last two years and the bitter memory of "the tie" in 1968 have prompted Yale Daily sports writer Randy Yates to write a melodramatic column entitled "I Hate Harvard...
...Clayton, a casualty of the injury jinx that hit Harvard during March, made his Spring debut in the half-mile, and outkicked his Dartmouth opponent on the final turn to win in 1:57.2. Freshman John Maggio, competing in the varsity 440 intermediate hurdles, overcame a three-yard deficit--the result of a misplaced starting block--and won the race...