Word: goliaths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Clark Kent may be a champion of the underdog, but this is one David vs. Goliath story that will never appear in the Daily Planet. Back in 1979, student editors at Chicago's Richard J. Daley College decided to change their campus newspaper's name from the ominous sounding The Obstacle to the more light-hearted Daley Planet, after Superman's favorite newspaper. Funny? Certainly not to DC Comics, a division of Warner Communications Inc., which owns the Superman trademark...
Nader, mellower and a bit grayer than in his days as a corporate Goliath slayer, is optimistic that the tide will again turn...
Eight minutes before his flight leaves for Washington, Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, self-appointed David to America's corporate Goliath, steps through the automatic sliding doors at Logan Airport...
...story, drawn from a real event in pre-World War I Britain, involves Ronnie (David Haller), a naval cadet who has been expelled for supposedly stealing a five-shilling money order. Convinced that his son is innocent, Arthur Winslow (Ralph Clanton) launches a David-vs.-Goliath struggle against the powers that be. Thanks to a top barrister (Remak Ramsay) whose icy hauteur masks a passion for justice, the boy's name is cleared, but the economic and emotional costs are high, especially for Winslow's daughter Catherine, who loses her fiancé. The strikingly attractive Giulia Pagano makes...
David slaying Goliath, the Greeks at Thermoplylae, the American Revolution, the Six-Day War, the Miracle Mets, and now chalk up one more to the underdogs: The Game...