Word: underdogs
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...Bird or Steffi Graf, there are at least 300 athletes with the odds firmly stacked against them. And for every Ben Johnson, there are a hundred others who are neither competitive nor affluent enough to boost their chances with illicit drugs. The Olympics, in fact, are a festival of underdogs: at least 130 of the nations that will compete in Barcelona will have the luxury of being in a can't-lose position -- expectations for them are so low that any achievement will be a triumph. And perhaps 90% of all the athletes can do no more than remind themselves...
Harvard, to say the least, comes into the game as an underdog...
...York was billed as a high pitched battle with Brown as the underdog. But, in that race, the man of many faces was slapped with the reality of his past...
With some extra bodies returning to the lineup and the new win streak, Harvard certainly has a renewed spirit. But the Crimson still relishes its role as the underdog...
...World War II). There was also Talking to Myself, a memoir of a life that included careers in acting, sports announcing and journalism. Terkel's earlier ambition was "to have a nice civil service job." It is hard to imagine. His disdain for bureaucracy and sympathy for the underdog would have produced an unlikely paper pusher. The crusty populism asserted itself two years ago when his publisher, Andre Schiffrin, was forced out as head of Pantheon by the parent | company, Random House. Dramatically terming the dismissal "a barbaric act," Terkel left the world of bottom-line publishing to join Schiffrin...