Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agnew kept faith with the American dream. A civilian again, he began to find himself as an underdog representing other underdogs. Negotiating contracts for AFL-CIO butchers as well as for black fishermen in Chesapeake Bay, he became a labor lawyer to warm the bleeding heart of any liberal...
Harvard will start off its singles competition at a disadvantage. Harvard's number one, sophomore Harris Masterson, is a distinct underdog to Dartmouth co-captain Lloyd Ucko, who boasts an 8-1 record and who went undefeated on the Southern trip...
...underdog presidential candidate need not become disheartened even though he runs far behind the leaders in the national public-opinion polls. Often such polls bear no resemblance at all to the outcome of individual state primaries...
...Bill Colson is back for his third year at first singles, and his brother Dean, a sophomore, has moved in at number two. Harold Rabinowitz did not play singles against Dartmouth yesterday and may be at less than full strength, but Harvard's Inguard will still be a definite underdog...
...complicated things as well?not least because Israel was victorious beyond all expectation. Some Jews, especially younger ones, had trouble adjusting to the image of the Jew as conqueror. Those in the New Left found it possible to assail Israel as the new upperdog and to defend the underdog Palestinian guerrillas with Jerry Rubin's phrase, "Right on, Al Fatah!" The chorus was joined by black militants, who now hurled epithets at the very Jews who had first marched with them in civil rights protests. The blacks' anger, overtly against Israel, at least partly reflected domestic friction: they were finding...