Word: underdogs
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...with an Ax. His sympathy for the underdog aroused, Ziolkowski closed his studio at Hartford. Conn., went to the Black Hills of South Dakota to build his monument as a symbol of the down trodden of the earth. But the late terrible-tempered Harold Ickes, then Secretary of the Interior, snapped at him: "I won't permit you to carve up my mountains." That was not enough to stop Ziolkowski: he bought a mountain...
...failure of the first Air Force test Atlas gave underdog Army spokesmen new confidence in the bitter interservice fracas on U.S. missile dominance. Against Atlas' crash and the Air Force's bug-ridden 1,500-mile Thor missile, the Army touted its own relatively successful 1,500-mile Jupiter (TIME, June 10) and the new low-level-surf ace-to-air Hawk, made its boldest pitch yet for operational control of intermediate-range missilery (1,500 miles) now assigned to the Air Force...
Career: After a year as a soldier in World War I, he built up a reputation as a defender of the underdog. Changed his Liberal sympathies in 1925, ran first of four unsuccessful races as a Tory, losing in one to famed Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Elected in 1940, has since 1945 been the only Tory M.P. from the Liberal and socialist stronghold of Saskatchewan. Won leadership of the Conservatives in December 1956, succeeded ailing, standoffish George Drew...
...reality, the varsity heavy crew has everything to win and nothing to lose tomorrow afternoon when it races Penn and Navy on the Skuylkill River for the Adams Cup. The Crimson eight has to be rated as the underdog, but they have an excellent chance to upset the Eastern rowing applecart...
...tenuous basis of comparative scores, Harvard will have to enter the match in the role of favorite. This is particularly unfortunate because the Big Three contests are usually potential upsets. These crystallize more often when one team is put in the role of underdog. Last year the Crimson was given slight chance to defeat the Tigers, but defeated them for the first time in many years...