Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comment, Howard," mumbled No. 1 ranked Heavyweight Contender George Foreman to his sometime broadcasting colleague Howard Cosell after dropping a unanimous 12-round decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico, last week to 3-to-l underdog Jimmy Young. Young's cover-up tactics and counterpunching created more than another dent in the former champ's fragile ego. They put a crimp in the multimillion-dollar plans of Promoter Don King to get Foreman back in the ring for a rematch with Titleholder Muhammad Ali. After flirting with retirement following his victory over Ken Norton last fall, the aging...
Evidently people take enormous pride in sensational tales about the exploits of their ancestors. Certainly, the aura of mystery about the ancients fascinates people. And in the case of theories like Fell's the traditional American sympathy for the underdog is aroused by the drama of an outsider challenging the orthodoxy of the Establishment...
...Harvard's George Hughes who provided the biggest exclamation point of all when he drilled the puck past Boston College's goaltending sensation Paul Skidmore with 29 seconds left in regulation time, triggering a dramatic 4-2 victory for the underdog Crimson in a crucial Division I contest...
...then apply them to specific cases. Carnegie-Mellon and M.I.T. are strong in statistics and math; their students could "crunch the numbers." Wharton is reputed to produce hard-nosed decision makers-bottom-line types. Cornell, which uses a combination of the case-study and theory methods, was clearly the underdog. Said Team Member Dick Tushingham: "If we are simply perceived as having achieved parity with the other schools, we will have done something for Cornell." The results were to be judged by five business experts. They were also judged unofficially by 30 or so corporate recruiters on the lookout...
Chile, with 79,600 men under arms (v. 63,000 for the Peruvians), would be the underdog in any set-to with its northern neighbor, partly because it has found modern weapons almost impossible to buy. Reason: the U.S. and Britain have imposed tight embargoes on sales of arms to General Augusto Pinochet's regime because of its callous record on human rights. Although Chile has begun receiving about 50 American F-5E and A-37 warplanes, ordered before the embargo, they may not be a match for Peru's Russian-made Su-22s, especially if Soviet training...