Word: midases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sox starter and ex-Yankee Mike Torrez lost his Midas touch in the top of the seventh, though, yielding two singles before shortstop Bucky Dent came to the plate with two outs.
This year, for the first time, the Midas touch of King Carril has failed to produce its annual wonders. Princeton has three losses in the Ivies, and Penn--tonight's Harvard opponent--just about has the league title wrapped up.
The order had just the man for this Midas direct-mail touch-the Rev. Guide J. Carcich. Trieste-born, he had come to the U.S. as an immigrant and was a parish priest in Baltimore for seven years. He had a taste for worldly things, a born manager's...
When the Eagies came out shooting with a kind of reverse Midas touch in the opening minutes, Fine took charge, worming his way past B.C.'s man-to-man defense and underneath the behemoth Eagle forwards for five quick baskets from inside.
> Prince Mohamed, another son of Faisal and a business-administration graduate of Menlo College in California, is the chief of Saudi Arabia's water-desalination agency. He must grapple with his country's Midas-like curse: wherever explorers drill for water, oil shoots up. The prince directs a...