Word: omen
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...weekend began with a bad omen as the tracksters travelled down to Penn a day early for Friday night's qualifying trials--promptly cancelled without the anticipated overflow expected for the meet--and the restless Crimson had to spend an unnecessary 24 hours in Philly. W.C. Fields would have been sympathetic...
...take this break in relations as a good omen. Iranians have forced an oppressive superpower to terminate its pillage here. The nation is justified in celebrating the advent of victory...
...HAVEN, Conn.-Maybe when the team bus had to turn around somewhere in Newton in order to retrieve a forgotten swimmer, the aquawomen should have recognized a bad omen...
...film, also, the decade witnessed some notable contributions--foremost among them The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Annie Hall and The Deer Hunter--but they were overwhelmed by a procession of disaster films (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), occult films (The Exorcist, The Omen and sequel films (The French Connection, American Graffiti, Rocky, Jaws and most everything else, part II) that provided the standard fare for most of this country's theaters during much of the decade. We tended to stumble into the trap of praising a movie just because it made money when our critical instincts should...
...impressive staging (the new rink, the new uniforms, the "new enthusiasm"), things aren't going to be pretty right away. The rules for success in the ECAC are still the same--talent, experience and playing Princeton twice a year. The freshmen again looked strong, and that kind of good omen hasn't been around for four years--or since Harvard let Kevin Constantine get away...