Word: underdogs
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...promised the hill people independence if they wanted it. Last year Nehru gave in to the extent of creating Nagaland state, with its capital at Kohima. In February, a Baptist convention proposed that a three-man committee consisting of two Indians and Britain's champion of the underdog, the Rev. Michael Scott, explore the prospects of talks with the rebels. The Naga leader, Angami Zapu Phizo, who is known to his followers as "The One," and who lives in exile in London, was promised immunity if he returned to India...
...where was the man? The world's most valuable twin-double ticket was finally claimed, not on the hour but nearly two days later, and not by the perennial underdog but by a platoon of upper-income New Jersey businessmen who arrived at the track in a long green Cadillac and left behind them the dis tinct impression of a gamble involving neither luck nor love of the game but of a cold-eyed investment by men who know their way around...
...outset, Percy rated as a distinct underdog to Secretary of State Charles Carpentier, 67, an old-guard G.O.P. workhorse with powerful party backing. Applying a hard sell to his hard run, Percy labeled himself a "dynamic conservative," pasted together an organization from young and energetic Republicans who had been disenchanted with their party after its poor showing in the 1960 elections. He picked up strong financial support from business friends, set out to cover the state in a bus dubbed the "Chuckwagon" that he filled with his wife, five kids and an eight-piece band. He plugged economic development...
...death," diagnosed the doctor. "He acts like a man off the beaten path." The performance cost Cassius a $2,500 fine, and out in Las Vegas, bookmakers raised the odds against Clay from 7-1 to 8-1. Smiled Cassius: "That's fine. I like being the underdog...
Undoubtedly, the swimmers will provide the day's hottest contest. Against a strong Yale team, they will rate as an underdog, as the bullpups have beaten a Princeton team 49-46, which defeated the Crimson 50-45. The vagaries of swimming, however, and some superb performances by Crimson fishes may upset the logic of these mathematical comparisons...