Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While claiming that "there is no way she can beat me," he also delights in ticking off King's ostensible advantages: "A better serve, more quickness, better overhead, backhand and forehand volley, more stamina." He enjoys appearing to be the underdog who cannot lose. Because the format was changed from two sets out of three to three of five-a seeming advantage for the younger player-he claims that the betting odds should drop from 8 to 5 on him to even money. (In Las Vegas, Jimmy the Greek gives Riggs the edge...
...that wasn't enough for him: he wanted it cleaned up as well, as I guess was only right. Eventually my roommate became moderately friendly with him and halfway through exam period they even got stoned together, in an evening which climaxed when my roommate marched indignantly into the Underdog, a restaurant which was already doing a surprisingly thriving business, and demanded that the owner immediately divest his store of its pinball machine, as his contribution to suppressing the Mafia. My roommate claims that the Mafia has a usufruct on all pinball machines and devotes most of the profits from...
...dark and smelly as an Eskimo's blubber lamp. The Pearyites generally stand pat on the slushy record. Cook's boosters, like California Biographer Hugh Eames, author of Winner Lose All, tend to heap benefits where there is clearly doubt and portray their man as an unworldly underdog, victimized by the Establishment. Eames' assertion that Cook reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908, is not even borne out by Cook himself, who would not vouch for the accuracy of his instrument readings beyond a "reasonable certainty." It is also reasonably certain that Peary's friends...
...mayor. Rennie Davis makes speeches for the 15-year-old Perfect Master. The New York Yankees look as though they will win the pennant for the first time since the halcyon days of Lyndon Johnson. And the New York Mets--the team of the undaunted losers, of the underdog, the Viet Cong of organized baseball--are in last place, with half their players injured...
Cafe life in the Square may not be any Paris in the twenties--rather it is a Boston brand of boardwalk watching, coffee sipping retreats from the Action that play at the cosmopolitan feeling of being above it all. The Pamplona (on Bow St. next to the Underdog) reverberates with the undertones of the heavies, of intellectual riffraff at its most sincere and heart of heart having it outs. Everybody eavesdrops, it is licensed voyeurism. The Window Shop (56 Brattle St.) is an outdoor cafe that provides a front row bleacher seat as to who's who at the Casablanca...