Word: jinxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smear herself with chill-cutting grease, adjusted her suction-cupped goggles and waded into the black water off Dover. Three hours out, she was a very sick girl. Said father Chadwick: "She was vomiting every third stroke." Pills did not help, but finally one of her trainers spotted the jinx: fumes from a leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew away. While her pilot boat almost lost her in the fog, Florence's father took one pill after another to ease the strain on his own weak heart. Finally, after...
...campaigning ("minor league stuff"), Savitt had only a so-so record, actually lost six of seven matches (on clay) to Jaroslav Drobny, ex-Czech Davis Cup veteran. The losses did little to shake Dick's new-found faith in his ability to win, but they did create a jinx. Drobny beat him again in the quarter-finals of the French championships, a tournament that Savitt really wanted to win. He began to fret, decided he was over-tennised, and practically stopped playing for the whole month before Wimbledon...
Even blasé New Yorkers gawked at the razzle-dazzle last week when Food Fair Stores Inc. opened two spick & span new supermarkets. Skywriting planes swept overhead. Models paraded by in hats adorned with lobsters and sirloin steaks. Mayor Impellitteri came to shop, Tex & Jinx McCrary put on a broadcast, and television's Dagmar, surrounded by a crowd of 7,000, had her automobile license plates ripped off as souvenirs. Inside the air-conditioned stores, shoppers snatched at bargains (chicken at 39? a lb.), boggled at such curiosities as ostrich eggs at $45 apiece, llama steaks...
...DiMaggio (July 13, 1936), spectacular rookie, played with the American League All-Stars the week his cover | came out, made no hits in five times up, fumbled two ground balls. Score: National League 4; American League 3. (The jinx, if jinx it was, did not seem to bother DiMaggio's playing from that point on.) Tom Harmon (Nov. 6, 1939), Michigan's All-America back, made but one touchdown the next Saturday, while mediocre Illinois stopped him for one of the season's biggest upsets. Score: Illinois 16; Michigan...
...TIME jinx legend is something like the old baseball taboo - never, before the last out is called, tell the man on the mound that he is pitching a no-hit game (as if he didn't know it). If anybody gets a single, the informant is accused of jinxing the pitcher. Not only sports figures, but many other top news personalities (such as politicians, businessmen and generals) are engaged in highly competitive enterprises. They may, like Thomas Dewey, two weeks after an October 1944 cover, get knocked out of the box. They may, like Marshal Stalin after eight different...