Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harriers meet a tough Cornell squad today at Moakley Course in Ithaca with five of the team's top seven ailing from a virus. The race begins at 1 p.m., and the Crimson is clearly the underdog...
...hope and pray that Senator Brooke will not accept a place on a Nixon ticket should it be offered, since no good could come of such a trick to any underdog group in our distressed land, but only disillusionment and heartbreak...
...been longer than one cares to remember since Harvard has been a decided underdog in a cross-country meet. But when coach Bill McCurdy brings seven men and an eight-meet unbeaten skein to New York's Van Cortlandt Park at 3 p.m. today, the Crimson will have to run far above its ability if it hopes to catch what may be the best Penn squad ever assembled...
...often the case in an upset, the victory meant much more to the conquering underdog than the defeat meant to the vanquished bully...
Americans have sometimes cherished a blunt directness in their politicians. But that particular "give-'em-hell" charm, as Spiro Agnew has never discovered, demands, besides truculence, an implicit instinct for the underdog. It is the charm of the anti-bully...