Word: jinxing
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...game between the Harvard men’s hockey team and No. 1 Boston College (BC). The crowd filling much of the Bright Hockey Center would catch its breath audibly, then force nervous applause during stoppages of play. But for the most part, it remained silent, afraid to jinx the spectacle unfolding...
...would talk about it—afraid to jinx it, look too far ahead or sound cocky. There were, of course, five league games to fight through before this point. Five chances for disaster or heartbreak, where a bad bounce or an injury could make the whole thing moot anyway...
With their second full-length album Antics, Interpol beat the sophomore jinx and begin to lay down roots as an indie institution. The New York quartet builds on the success of its debut, Turn on the Bright Lights, expanding musically while remaining faithful to the viscous, subversive recipe that won them critical acclaim in the first place. The new record finds the young band charged with composure and confidence, equipped with a welcome infusion of melodic complexity...
...Games, having to settle for silver on each occasion. At Sydney in 2000, she told reporters she wanted "at best, a gold. At worst, a gold." It was the best of times and the worst of times for Tani then, as she finally broke her gold-medal jinx, fighting her way to Olympic glory...
...DIED. JINX FALKENBURG, 84, cover girl and actress, who along with her husband journalist Tex McCrary helped pioneer the talk-show genre; in Manhasset, N.Y. The hazel-eyed, brunet beauty had appeared in several movies before finding her calling in broadcasting. The Hi Jinx radio show, with hosts Falkenburg and McCrary, first aired in 1946 and featured guest interviews as well as reports on such weighty topics as the atom bomb and venereal disease. Its success spawned a television offshoot called At Home that also starred the two. By the 1950s, the couple's franchise included two radio shows...