Word: underdog
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There are differences worth noting. Raw culture of the '60s was a political response to a system seen by many artists as repressive and, in Vietnam, genocidal. They championed the underdog by kicking the top dog. And for the first time, thanks to Supreme Court decisions liberalizing the definition of obscenity, performers were able to use whatever words they chose. Bruce, the gifted, tortured pioneer of this mode, aptly titled his autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. In the book's foreword, critic Kenneth Tynan praised Bruce as "an impromptu prose poet who trusted his audience so completely...
...Everyone's pretty confident," Co-Captain midfielder Mark Donovan said. "We definitely don't see ourselves as the underdog...
Bringing her underdog campaign to the Graduate School of Education's Longfellow Hall, Murphy said that despite recent attacks from the right, liberal Democratic values are the mostly effective way to address the state's fiscal and social woes...
Coach Hafferty was very pleased with the win and credited the team's hard work over spring break as the main reason for the underdog victory...
...Right now, we have people ahead of us and we have some goals," defender Chris Bentley said. "I'd rather be an underdog and play a team that's higher ranked...