Word: jinxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close companion pieces to the Bick are the Waldorf and the Red Caboose. I didn't tell you the location because both are closed: the Red Caboose is gone forever, leaving only an empty place in my heart. It went broke because it was on jinx corner (Winthrop St. and Mass Ave.). The Waldorf is closed temporarily "to open again with a more modern restaurant." Fat chance...
...Eagle jinx" may be more psychological than physical. For the past two years, the Crimson has had better material, and its record proves that it has done more with it. Nor is Boston College more of a clutch team. It lost twice to St. Lawrence this year, three times to Boston University, and once to Clarkson-all in situations where it had more to gain than just a victory...
...addition to dealing with Army, the Crimson has a jinx to break. For the last three years, whoever won the Harvard-Army dual meet has lost the Heps. This year Harvard won the dual meet...
...capital for India's sprawling Punjab state. Though shantytowns have long since sprung up alongside its lovely cubes and rectangles, Chandigarh (pop. 150,000) still stands out like an exquisite jewel in the blazing Punjab plain. From the first, however, it has been a jewel with a jinx -accursed, like the Hope diamond...
Princeton has the advantage of the "Baker Rink jinx." But even if jinxes are not necessarify passed on from one Crimson team to the next, there is still another Harvard fault that could play right into the Tigers' paws. Harvard has more trouble than almost any team in the East in trying to hang on to two and three goal leads. Just this winter, it has allowed B.C. to rally for four goals. Clarkson for two, McGill for four and Penn for two-twice in the same game...