Word: underdogs
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...woman's point of view. (The Gang, by the was recently solved its long-brewing bassist problem with the addition of the multi-talented Sara Lee hurray for coeducation in rock!) The biting "The History of the World" is a disguised condemnation of imperialism and the album's underdog success. "When I was in my mother's womb, social structure seemed at simple thing," sings King with comic earnestness...
...Eleanor in the White House had become a benison. She gave hope to the desperate and defeated, seeking out the underdog and the eccentric . . . It was as if she engaged in a dialogue that was always invested with love. . . Relationships enabled her to remain human and to plumb depths of feeling from which she had long been absent. She was grateful and did not care what the papers wrote...
...choice to its 30 Members of Parliament, the new Social Democratic Party mailed ballots to each of the 62,372 people who had paid $19 a year to join the party. To the surprise of pundits and pollsters, the final tally last week handed victory not to the underdog who had pressed for the ballot by mail but to the elder statesman who would no doubt have been the first choice of M.P.s in a smoke-filled room. The winner was Roy Jenkins, 61, a venerable politician who served in several Labor Cabinets and as president of the Brussels-based...
Forsaking All Others is another depiction of an underdog-eat-underdog world, bordered on the south by small-town Puerto Rico and on the north by the slums of the South Bronx. To the west, living in suburban New Jersey, are the absentee Mafia lords of the drug trade. To the east, in the modest neighborhoods of Queens and Long Island, are the homes of the cops. The Puerto Rican hoods hate their poverty and lack of power. The Italian gangsters despise the Puerto Ricans because they say "New Jessey" and are competitors in crime. The cops believe that everybody...
Palm, who worried late last week that underdog Albany State might surprise a tired Crimson squad saw his spikers spot the Great Dance the first game and fall to a 14 13 deficit in the second stanza of yesterday's decision battle. Weary after a five game loss to Princeton Saturday and the long drive to Albany yesterday morning. Harvard faced an imminent threat to its unblemished division record...