Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year's Beanpot, he looks atNortheastern as the decided underdog...
...sports, George Bush never fights harder than when he is behind. Though he would bristle at the suggestion, he actually likes to be dismissed as a loser so he can pull off an upset. Thus he arrived in New Hampshire last week acting more like a scrappy underdog than an incumbent President. For 15 hours he scrambled around the southeast part of the economically devastated state, shaking hands, patting cows and assuring residents that he understood their worries. "I know I've got a lot of problems here," he told them, "but we're going to take care of those...
Bark like an Underdog...
Boris Yeltsin, the comeback kid of Russian politics, deftly toppled the Kremlin and inherited the nuclear button . . . The Teamsters said goodbye to the Mafia. Against all odds, the most corrupt U.S. labor union elected an underdog reformer as president -- Watch out, wiseguys . . . Sam Skinner moved up from Transportation Secretary to displace arrogant-to-the-end John Sununu. Skinner was just what George Bush needed -- a crisis manager who flies coach class . . . Wal-Mart isn't just a discount store anymore. Sam Walton's brainchild surpassed Sears in 1991 as the largest U.S. retailer . . . Nirvana found its place in alternative-rock...
...underdog Harvard sailing team captured its first intersectional victory in more than five years by winning the highly prestigious 45th annual Timmie Angston Regatta-Midwest Championships held in Chicago during Thanksgiving weekend...