Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it's been so long that we've forgotten what "left" is and how to tell it from right. At the simplest, most ecumenical level, to be on the left means to take the side of the underdog, whoever that may be: the meek, the poor and, generally speaking, the "least among us," as a well-known representative of the left position put it a couple of millenniums ago. Thus it is not leftish to have a $200 haircut while planes full of $20 haircut people circle overhead; nor would a leftist contemplate selling the President's favors...
...climb. "Going after Yeltsin was like waving a red flag at a bull," says a middle-aged chauffeur at the Perovsky garage. "Whatever we may have thought about the President before, he now has our 100% support. It's in the Russian character to stick up for the underdog...
Underrated: Brown said it bad every intention of winning last night's game and that all the talk of it being a heavy underdog was, well, just talk...
...knew we were the underdog, but we wanted to give them a good game," Walton said. "Our first period was horrendous, though. They're definitely an awesome team, but we wanted to come out strong and we didn't. I don't know if we weren't warmed up or what...
...even though Harvard would rather not play the role of the underdog, the Crimson knows that the pressure is definitely on Brown...