Word: underdog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America seems to have a fascination with the underdog--at least when the underdog isn't urinating on its own soil. So when the Palestinians erupted in bullets and stones against the authority of the State of Israel this week in outrage over the completion of a tourist tunnel, they garnered much sympathy from the American press and pundits. (The fretting of the State Department was but its manifest agony at the breakdown of an imperialist grand plan...
...wrong, I like the underdog, but this wasn't exactly like the unseeded Boris Becker taking the title by storm. The women's draw was and will continue to be the Steffi Graf show. Even the criminal activities of her father have ceased to be interesting...
...Justice Department's Antitrust Division on Netscape's behalf, accusing Microsoft of every anticompetitive behavior short of kidnapping programmers. The charges infuriated Gates, who has already battled Justice on antitrust issues. Worse, Reback's letter played right into the media's general portrayal of Netscape as a lonely underdog facing off against a cheating giant...
With President Clinton enjoying a 16-or-so-point lead in the polls, underdog Republican candidate Bob Dole turned to another legendary double-digit presidential straggler last week. "Like [Harry] Truman," Dole vowed, "I'm going to win a come-from-behind victory for President of the United States. You just wait and see." Gee, that sounds familiar...
...boisterous celebration sent Dole into the fall campaign against President Clinton with a jolt of enthusiasm but still as the underdog, an often uneven campaigner against a polished Democratic incumbent at a time of peace and low unemployment...