Word: underdogs
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...Harvard is an underdog would be to say the Pope dabbles in religion. And his Holiness--not to mention the Great Signalcaller in the Sky--probably favors the Cross...
...global economy, complete with chalk diagrams. Gore jettisoned his standard text and went after the President with lines like "What crashed on Monday was not only the stock market but Reaganomics as well." Still, Bruce Babbitt remains the only Democrat to confront the deficit boldly, especially with his underdog challenge to middle-class entitlement programs...
...union, which has been the clear underdog in campus support since it broke with HUCTW, left the door open for its return. "If after a year [AFSCME] has been unable to win representation rights for Harvard employees, then the UAW will again respond to any requests to organize from Harvard employees," said the UAW letter...
Besides, all the world loves an underdog, and the Twins were once the Washington Senators, who won only once, in 1924. Shades of Walter Johnson, and all that. But then, I could also see pulling for the Cards. They were among the original eight of my youth, and I have a Bowman 1948 Stan Musial card now worth more than a hundred bucks (thank God I didn't throw that set out with the rest of the shoebox). So, now that the time has come I'm there, rejoicing or dying for my newly rationalized champions...
...farm in Warnock, Ohio. "He didn't like that my dad had to go to work. Really, son, I don't know why. During the Depression, when other people were standing in breadlines, my dad had work and provided for us. But Jim never liked to see the underdog pressed or people misused. That was just his makeup...