Word: underdogs
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...small soggy band of loyal lacrosse fans stood in the rain and watched underdog Harvard pound Yale for three periods Saturday. But lacrosse games are four quarter affairs and the Bulldogs really made the most of those final 15 minutes...
...dull speaker with little appeal to the voters. McKeldin, on the other hand, is a onetime Dale Carnegie Institute instructor who has obviously kissed the Blarney stone; his oratory earned him the honor of nominating Dwight Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention in 1952. Still McKeldin was the underdog. But the Republican candidate for city comptroller withdrew after a firm he once headed was found insolvent by the Baltimore Circuit Court. The G.O.P. filled the vacancy with Hyman Pressman, a Democrat who had switched tickets after los ing his own party's nomination for comptroller. Pressman, self-styled "watchdog...
Dartmouth will be playing its first game of the season, and for that reason alone it must be rated the underdog. Harvard slaughtered its four opponents in Bermuda, and will feature what is probably the strongest scrum on the East Coast. If the Crimson runners can perform as well as they did on the spring trip, there will be no contest...
...Clay crowd. In the Boston Herald, Bud Collins had complained that nobody wanted Jones to win. "It is a holy war," he wrote. "Cassius, the savior of boxing, against an opponent whom . he calls 'that ugly little man.' Where is the good old American sentiment for the underdog?" By fight time there was plenty of sentiment. Half of Harlem trooped to the Garden to root for New Yorker Jones. For other fans rooting against Clay was practically a moral obligation. Prideful Cassius was due for his fall, and they were there to trip him if they could...
...Vote Canadian." His Cabinet splintered, his campaign coffers badly depleted, his candidacy denounced by three of the country's four leading Conservative newspapers, Diefenbaker made what he could of his underdog role. Playing it all the way, he compared himself to Harry Truman, giving 'em hell in 1948. "Let 'em have it, John," sang out his loyal Conservative supporters. But Diefenbaker did not have much ammunition. Lacking real issues, he turned his prairie-evangelist oratory on Liberal Party "obstructionism," cried that the Liberals had sabotaged his parliamentary program-which, in fact, the dillydallying Diefenbaker government never actually...