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Although the vast majority of infected individuals emerge from coccidioidomycosis without complications, an unlucky minority are faced with a debilitating disease that lacks adequate drug options for rapid and completely effective treatment.
There is also the learned guess, as in the etymology for groundhog , the Midland name for the eastern woodchuck, which may be a calque from Dutch aertoercken , and archaic variant of aardvarken , literally `earth pig'; or hieronymous , a euphemism for the posterior, which may derive from Greek hieron osteon , the name for the sacrum; or the southern Appalachian expression to come out of the little end of the horn meaning `to be unlucky,' which is probably an allusion to a “reverse” cornucopia.
Since Thursday, I have been wondering if an unlucky gambler has ever opened fire in a Las Vegas casino, or if any of the stockbrokers who committed suicide in '29 or '87 ever hurt anyone but themselves.
"The Lewinsky Affair" fits in with the American tradition of naming scandals after unlucky people or objects, and it sounds great in French.
In one case, police used a shoe print to link an unlucky Nike loyalist to 36 other crimes.