Word: overdog
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...falls short. The seemingly gloomy prospects do not daunt Eleanor. "My husband does not give up easily. And neither do I," she says with a glint in her eyes. Nor is Pat Nixon ebullient over certain success. "Listen," she says, "you can never worry too much about being an overdog. Politics is a funny business: you're up one day, down the next." Up or down, the other campaigners of 1972 have measurably warmed and enhanced the unprepossessing political landscape...
...Kicks. Kennedy himself inflated his overdog standing by simply ignoring McCarthy, concentrating instead on flaying Hubert Humphrey. Bobby dodged Gene's challenge to debate; he ignored taunts about his own record concerning Viet Nam; he seemed not to be listening at all as McCarthy increasingly and effectively sharpened his anti-Kennedy rhetoric...
...challenger, as usual, was swashbuckling TACA Airways S.A. For three years, TACA has worried the South American flanks of overdog Pan American Airways Corp., and has won permits to operate in such Pan Am territory as Brazil and Venezuela. Pan Am has pretended not to notice these nips. But fortnight ago it wheeled, announced that it was setting up affiliated companies in TACA's boneyard -Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and tiny Costa Rica...