Word: underdogs
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...South Bend, a crowd of 59,000 watched happily as Southern California, the preseason pick for national champion, went down to its second defeat, 17-14, at the hands of an inspired Notre Dame team that had lost its first two games. At University Park, Pa., underdog (by 12½ points) Army dumped Penn State for the third year in a row, 10-7, and out in Seattle, winless (0-3) Washington worked off its frustration on undefeated (3-0) Oregon State...
...years struggling for another title bout which he could not win and which no one would pay to see. Certainly there are heavyweights around whom Floyd can still beat. Probably he deserves to be rated fourth or fifth instead of seventh. But, he would go into the ring an underdog against Clay, Jones, and probably Terrell, and that alone is reason enough for a former champion to retire...
...flattered by the attention, and also brags that the U.S. has tried unsuccessfully for years to get Diem to curb her power. She bitterly attacks the anti-Diem U.S. press corps in Saigon and accuses Americans generally of being a lot of "Ivanhoes"?perpetually in love with the underdog but confused about just who the underdog...
...social reform in the "slouching, sluggish" Labor Party leadership but among artists like Jacob Epstein, writers like H. G. Wells, or even with an aristocrat turned columnist like Lord Castlerosse. Bevan behaved as if his own talent and exuberance gave him a spectator's seat rather than an underdog's role in the old British game of class soccer. After a fine meal with good wine he would quip: "You can always live like a millionaire for five minutes." This is the tone of the bohemian rather than the social reformer. And when he set up house with...
Each asphalt-covered brick at Indianapolis' Motor Speedway is a tombstone for a dream-the kind of dream that makes men recite the words on the Statue of Liberty and sing paeans to the New York Mets. For the Brickyard is the place where the underdog never wins...