Word: underdog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a disappointing season last year, when they finished 5-10 overall with a 4-2 midseason loss to Harvard, Yale, as the underdog, is obviously looking to pull another upset...
...Crimson looks ahead to next weekend's ECACs, its days of underdog status are now over...
Farleigh Dickinson and Hofstra are the other two teams in the tournament, and Sampson stressed that although Harvard is considered an underdog, it just might pull off the upset and come away with the tournament crown if it plays well...
...smartly directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, has a political agenda, but of a more general sort. In designating as its hero the spunky but idealistic princess and as its villain the English Governor Ratcliffe, head of the Jamestown expedition, the film takes the side of every available underdog: the working-class English sailors fighting the avaricious aristocrat, the Indian conservators over the white predators, the female spirit of conciliation over the male itch to resolve every dispute by going to war. Boldly eco-liberal, Pocahontas even pokes fun at the Disney Co.'s recent attempt to buy Virginia...
...will be necessary to explain repeatedly to Americans horrified by the blast why the Timothy McVeighs of this world deserve legal counsel. But the Louisiana-born, Texas-bred, aw-shucks county lawyer tells Time that he is fully prepared to stick with his role as champion of the underdog. After all, he has supported losing causes before: Nixon and Roger Dale Stafford, Oklahoma's most notorious death-row inmate, and his own three unsuccessful bids for electoral office. Says Jones of his court-appointed mission: "I think lawyers have to give something back to the state and the profession...