Word: luck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Thad McNulty raced under a could of bad luck in the two-day festival. After an impressive showing in the 800-meter trials, McNulty found himself in a blazing semifinal. His time of 1:52.1 was faster than all the times in the second heat, but when compared with the runners in his heat, placed him out of qualifying range for the finals...
...performance is the sum of all the subtle, wayward bits of life that Sellers invented, that keep audiences caring about this poor befogged man. In one scene, like the child he is, he carefully avoids stepping on cracks to keep bad luck at bay. The doctor tells him to keep his weight off his injured leg, and like some solemn, obedient stork, he then and there lifts it off the floor. Or, submitting to a telephone interview, after the President has quoted him in a speech, he catches sight of a TV exercise class and begins aping the movements...
...town with him. The people who don't have tickets for his events lean against the fence around the speed skating rink like refugees, shouting desperately every time he circles by. They love him madly; he is a hero. And it is clear that he loves them back. "Good luck, Eric," a random fan calls out as he whizzes by on a trial run, and Eric literally stops dead in his tracks and spins around and squints up at the crowd in the direction of the voice and smiles and waves vigorously. Everyone shouts and waves back. I can swear...
President Carter, phoning from Washington after the game, invited the team to visit the White House today. It will. "Congratulations and good luck," Carter told U.S. captain Mike Eruzione. "Thank you and good luck," the former B.U. star replied...
Back home in the village of Finkenberg (pop. 1,200), Stock's family had not laid in any champagne because they thought it would bring their racer bad luck. But Wilhelm Haag, the mayor and principal of the primary school, had thoughtfully procured a supply of fireworks; liquor was found, and the celebration went...