Word: underdogs
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...Crimson fencing team suffered a surprising 16-11 defeat at the hands of an underdog Cornell squad Saturday in Ithaca...
...these spirited short stories, Sillitoe's characters command a rich dialect in which the underdog facetiousness blurs but does not hide wary resentment or cynical despair. In their softer moments, they would like to live like their betters-ride bikes, wear cloth caps, eat fish and chips, play the football pools, and watch the telly on a paid-up set. For those simple pleasures of the poor, sex and the bottle, they have the same words: they "have a bash...
Said Morrison: "You can put me down as last in any hating contest." Kennedy was unpopular in Louisiana, as he was in most of the Deep South. And because Morrison, although a lip-service segregationist himself, was unwilling to inveigh against Kennedy, he was a distinct underdog...
...Texas: a nail-biting 15-13 victory over undermanned, underdog (by 13 points) Texas A. & M. that ensured the No. 1-ranked Longhorns an undefeated season (and probably the national championship)-but did little for their prestige. Illinois shackled Michigan State 13-0 to win its first Big Ten title in ten years, and No. 4-ranked Mississippi backed into the Southeastern Conference championship by eking out a 10-10 tie with unranked Mississippi State. In another intrastate battle, Auburn capitalized on Alabama mistakes for a 10-8 victory-the first time the Tigers had even scored on Alabama since...
...hunted make their way through the Yokohama underworld, and he finds flesh-and-blood truth in a final confrontation between Gondo and his enemy. The two men stare. Antithesis embodied, they are high and low-the man from the great glass house on the hill and the angry, anonymous underdog who loathes him from afar. "It is very interesting to make fortunate people unfortunate," the kidnaper sneers. "Hating you gave me some purpose in life...