Word: jinxing
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...need this game more than Harvard does because we're going for the seventh or eighth playoff spot," Northeastern coach Fernie Flaman said yesterday. "Possibly we will break the Crimson jinx--I've never beaten Harvard...
Whether the Crimson can shake off the home court jinx remains to be seen. But a team that can match Penn basket for basket until the last second and can rout Brown, Holy Cross and Northeastern has the potential to turn the IAB into a snakepit for opponents...
Along with this home-field jinx, Harvard will have the memory of last year's 10-7 loss to the Tigers as a reminder of the Tigers' ability to play the spoiler...
...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...