Word: jinxing
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...Lieut. General Lauris Norstad, 44, Allied Air Commander of SHAPE, admitted to New York Herald Tribune Columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg that he was getting on a bit. Said he: "When I was playing squash every day, not so long ago, I used to think of golf as an old man's game. Well, maybe it is, but now I'm playing golf." However, he said, fishing was still his first love, and for his casting expeditions he had bought a jaunty Tyrol hat, decked out with the traditional chamois brush and silver pins...
...Tanks Are Coming (Warner) should make moviegoers long for the days when Hollywood shrank from making war films. Since 1949's Battleground broke the box-office jinx, the studios have bombarded audiences with World War II stories celebrating the infantry and airmen; the Navy's FT boats, submarines, carriers and frogmen; the fighting Coast Guard; the Marines ashore and in the air. Now comes the turn of the armor that spearheaded the U.S. drive through France in the summer...
...took more that a scrappy Dartmouth outfit to maintain the Indians' jinx over the varsity soccer team yesterday. Some obviously inefficient officiating on two Green goals helped give a strong Green team a 3 to 1 victory on the Business School Field...
Bruce Munro's soccer team will try again to better its .500 average at 2 p.m. this afternoon when it takes on Dartmouth on the Business School Field Again the Crimson will be almost evenly matched against its opponent, but to win it will have to break a jinx. For two years the Indians have beaten the varsity...
...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...