Word: snakebit
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...Angeles this week to mark the first anniversary of the Northridge earthquake -- that is, to call attention to the herculean effort made to set things right. Instead he faced natural devastation of a different sort. More than half the state -- the most populous in the Union, the most snakebit in anyone's memory -- is a disaster once again. Ten days of torrents have put thousands of people, north and south, out of their homes, killed 11, ruined crops, closed freeways, played hell...
...normal and also snakebit, however, is a bit much. Injuries hit the U.S. men hard, and all but wiped out the women's team. Veteran Doug Lewis, who cracked a collarbone when a Soviet coach who was taking pictures blundered into his path during a ski test a few weeks ago, creaked to 32nd place in the downhill. A.J. Kitt and Jeff Olson, a couple of youngsters still getting used to the World Cup circuit, did respectably to finish 26th and 28th. No U.S. male skier survived the combined. Among the women, early-season injuries knocked out Star Tamara McKinney...
...would be a dull book if the two remained proprietors of the Hat Creek Cattle Co. & Livery Emporium ("GOATS AND DONKEY'S NEITHER BOUGHT NOR SOLD/WE DON'T RENT PIGS"). It isn't that life in town can't be dangerous. One can always fall off a porch, get snakebit picking up a jug or risk Tex-Mex cooking. The recipe for varmint stew: "Whatever the dogs catch. Or the dogs themselves, if they don't manage to catch nothing...
...launching of the 1984 presidential campaign. So stark were the contrasts between the two campaigns that they almost seemed contrived, a TV producer's artifice. They were not. Rarely has one candidate set out on the trail seeming so buoyant and secure, his challenger appearing so flat and snakebit...
Harvard's snakebit freshman football team ran right smack into a fired-up Bullpup defense, losing 6-0 to Yale, in the 95th meeting of America's longest running freshman rivalry...