Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OCTOBER is the month of the underdog, the time for a candidate who is trailing badly to make his most serious bid. This George McGovern is doing, but the bid does not seem strong enough. According to the latest poll conducted for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich Inc., the Democratic candidate has narrowed the gap with President Nixon, but has regained only the ground lost since the disastrous aftermath of the Eagleton affair. He remains far behind...
...season's opener against the underdog Buffalo Bills, a team that almost always plays its best against New York, Namath ran a carefully modulated game, passing only 14 times as he set up his running attack. Joe Willie did manage one touchdown strike to Halfback Emerson Boozer as the Jets won, 41-24. Then came the Baltimore Colts -now rivals of the Jets in the Eastern Division of the N.F.L.'s American Conference-who had beaten the Jets four times since the dramatic Super Bowl confrontation. Playing for the first time in Baltimore's cavernous Memorial Stadium...
...road McGovern divides his time furiously between straight politicking, interviews, rebuilding the fractured Democratic Party, and meetings with potential financial backers. Nixon, straight and stiff, shielded from critics and hecklers, launches into his stereotyped appeals that suggest personal discipline, patriotism and work. McGovern, the underdog, is looser and improvisational. Both men talk and move in different worlds. Nixon's is the White House and continuity-McGovern's is change and challenge...
...came to Harvard stadium as a heavy underdog against Frank "42 seconds" Champi, the last second hero of the '68 Harvard-Yale game, and a Crimson eleven that had not lost since November...
McGovern's attacks on Nixon have become increasingly sharp and bitter in recent days as the underdog Senator tries to lure the President out of the White House and onto the campaign trail...