Word: underdog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bradley is (Dick Gephardt has better name recognition). Political operatives wonder how Bradley expects to raise the $20 million he needs to take on Gore. They wonder if he's running for President--or Vice President. The idea makes him giggle. "I've always preferred to be the underdog," he says, arguing that it's early yet. By spring, he's sure, he'll have money and foot soldiers...
...Texas Death Row Fugitive Guy was so empathetic because he was an underdog: darkening his uniform with a pen, scaling two 10-ft., razor-studded fences, ducking a barrage of bullets, scampering through a marshy forest and evading more than 500 officers. Martin Gurule was a maverick with nothing left to lose up against a giant bureaucracy and some pretty cocky-sounding Texas prison officers, who were fooled by pillows he bunched together to make it look like him sleeping. Gurule was fighting the Man. He was messing with Texas. Are you getting this, Mr. Bruckheimer...
...showed a lot of energy and enthusiasm,"said sophomore epee Elizabeth Aranow. "And despitebeing the underdog, we had great performances...
Resentful after my brilliant underdog pick had fallen by the wayside, I blamed the greedy Foxboro fans and their incessant "Go for Two" chant. Yuk it up, I fumed. Two years from now you'll all be pounding it down I-84 to Hartford to watch the Ex-Patriots...
Otherwise, the ending sprinkles brief momentsof slight chuckles over its teary-eyed,underdog-comes-out-on-top denouement...