Word: underdogs
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...highlights of Joseph Pulitzer's life are well known: his rags-to-riches rise to become publisher of two leading U.S. dailies, his championing of the underdog, his epic battles with William Randolph Hearst, his efforts to upgrade journalism by establishing the Pulitzer prizes. Now, for the first time, a biographer has filled in the gaps between the accomplishments in vast detail. The evidence mounts up in William Swanberg's Piditzer* that the famed publisher was a far more erratic and self-tortured personality than is generally realized...
...division teams, except for a two-game series with Minnesota. The Twins (odds: 8-5) still have three games left with the Chicago White Sox (2-1), who in turn must play two against the Detroit Tigers (2-1). Whichever team wins is practically certain to be a solid underdog in next month's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals...
...attempt to attract the same audience, and is constantly struggling to maintain itself alongside the more prestigious HRO. When the HRO is up, the BSO is down and vice versa. Since the advent of James Yannatos as conductor of the HRO, the Bach Society has had to play underdog...
...Harvard tennis team displayed the high calibre of play it is capable of in a 6-3 victory over Dartmouth at the indoor courts yesterday. The Crimson, entering the match in the unaccustomed role of underdog, won four singles and two doubles in derailing the Green machine...
PRINCETON,N.J., April 29--The weather was warm and sunny but the Harvard tennis team turned ice cold in the singles play, dropping five of six individual matches to give underdog Princeton a 5-4 upset win here today. The loss, Harvard's second in Ivy play, crushed the Crimson's hopes for a third straight League title...