Word: underdog
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...true. The Shays-Meehan bill actually passed in the House by a hefty margin (close to 100 votes, if I remember correctly), but the Senate's concomitant legislation couldn't muster the 60 votes to beat a filibuster, although it did have a majority. Campaign finance is not an "underdog issue," and in the upcoming legislative year it will have even more support and probably will pass...
...true. The Shays-Meeham bill actually passed in the House by a hefty margin (close to 100 votes, if I remember correctly), but the Senate's concomitant legislation couldn't muster the 60 votes to beat a filibuster, although it did have a majority. Campaign finance is not an "underdog issue," and in the upcoming legislative year it will have even more support and probably will pass...
...admit that I was attracted to the book just because I like stories of the underdog. I'll even admit that the deal was sweetened by my personal fascination with African-American inner-city life. But this book is one that transcends those interests. I found myself reading passages again because they were so full of a simple, quiet strength of character and intensity of spirit which allows the narrator-heroine to endure the trials that occasionally strike the reader dumb with incredulity. Despite a few rough edges, the book manages to involve readers deeply in the emotional current...
...been keeping me going. They face Duke this weekend, so for my bracket hopes to stay alive, their Cinderella run must end. But their unexpected success is the point of March Madness. It's no fun if everything goes according to plan; we all love rooting for the underdog and watching him succeed. This attitude mostly has to do with basketball, but it also has to do with the time of the year--it's spring, and pleasant surprises are the order...
...underdog of a quite different sort here in Cambridge surprisingly won a round in its bracket this week, defeating a more powerful and bigger opponent. The Swedenborg Chapel was named an historical landmark by the City Council on Tuesday night, thereby protecting it from a Somerville developer's plan to demolish the building and raise a housing development in its place. The Council's decision preserves the outside of the Chapel from being destroyed or blocked from view. The inside is not protected because the Historical Commission does not consider interiors for landmark designation (though the council has requested...