Word: jinxing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After four straight home losses by 14 points, last year’s Harvard team finally overcame the jinx for a 61-57 victory over the Crimson...
...Savage let the shot fly.“We just played a couple of minutes of bad basketball at the end, and it came down to that,” Cusworth said.After four straight home losses by 14 points, last year’s Harvard team finally overcame the jinx for a 61-57 victory over the Crimson.As the Savage shot fell through with 0.2 seconds left, and with it Harvard’s hopes of becoming the first squad in 51 years to take two straight from the Tigers at home, it became clear that last season?...
Friends also remember Gilligan’s lighter side, recalling him as a practical joker with a particular affinity for high-jinx...
Jack Burcham survived for only ten days with his implant last April, but, says his wife Jinx, the experience seemed "a long, long terrible nightmare." Margaret Schroeder, enduring the longest bedside vigil of all, has spent months at a time in Louisville, 100 miles from her home. Last September she became so exhausted that she was hospitalized. She rarely gives interviews but told Annas that "she felt she was a prisoner of the artificial heart." Concern about their mother has added to the stress on the six Schroeder children. "The only thing worse than having one parent in the hospital...
...told him, kind of joking around, that I’ve pitched my two worst games of the season when he was there,” Herrmann said, smiling. “I told him he’s a jinx, but that it’s okay, because I’d rather have him here and pitch crappy than pitch good without him here...