The Japanese have long considered Yoshitsune to be the epitome of the underdog hero; many legends, stories, kabuki plays, and even films celebrate his adventures with his faithful follower, the monk Benkei.
Without Woods, the United States was underdog for the Ryder Cup at Valhalla in Louisville, Ky.
It is deeply sympathetic with the psychology of the underdog (1939: 277).
tremendously fascinated by the rise of the various captains of industry and that the underdog always interested me, his needs, his woes, his simplicities.
Although he always felt great sympathy for the underdog, it was only in 1937 in Barcelona, while taking part in the fight against fascism, that he suddenly felt fully committed to socialism.
His perennial sympathy with the underdog led him into hostility to the upper dog in the modern political world.
Here he gained his distinctive literary character, again and again dealing with people s treachery to each other and with the apparent betrayal of God by men, while repeatedly he displayed marked leftwing sympathies, offering resourceful defences of the social underdog and the rebel 286 Cedric Watts against authority.
First, without necessarily subscribing to the patriotic myth of the Greeks as heroic underdogs, it is beyond doubt that, up to the conquests of Alexander, the relationship of Greeks and Persians was one in which the military-political boot was on the Persian foot (e.
Hibbert does not make this zany love for the underdog seadog sound like a good thing.
At the Oratory 263 beginning of his career, of course, he lacked the requisite auctoritas; but in Pro Roscio Amerino (80 BC), a defence on a charge of parricide, he succeeds in turning this to his advantage by presenting himself as the underdog and claiming that his insignificance gives him greater opportunity to speak the truth.
Churchill never sentimentalizes her underdogs: in near monosyllabic exchanges between three generations of fen women, body-wracking labour and child-rearing chores form part of an endless cycle of denial, guilt and rage.
Fermoy wants the Irish to reinvent themselves without pretence to civilization, and without reference to a gentle Christ-figure who accepts pain and champions the underdog: rather, Fermoy invokes Caesar and Napoleon, for whom the world was one big battlefield (ibid.
, in practice, one might argue that its existence precedes its essence), has found so many niches in popular culture and has become a favored vehicle for assuming a critical posture of a less powerful but contentious underdog or of a selflessly interested, shrewd observer.
Hipponax s is an underdog pose, enhanced in this fragment by a physical sketch of the poet shivering, afflicted, and railing against the neglectful god of prosperity.
Iambography is an art, not the authentic self-expression of angry underdogs.
As losers in Vietnam, popular culture reinvented Americans as valiant underdogs and, in a paradoxical turn, identified with the little guys against big Evil Empires.
As we have seen in this chapter, there is plenty to suggest that Athenian comic poets were quite comfortable as parodists and satirists of tragedy, and that they cultivated their role as literary underdog, in fact, not so much to correct unjust perceptions of comedy 264 Ralph M.
An activist, a champion of the underdog, and a moralist, Rice advocated William Foster s radical political campaign in 1932, provided financial support for the Theatre Union, financed productions of his own polemic dramas, and resigned from the Federal Theatre Project as a result of the 1936 political crisis, culminating in the Ethiopia debacle.
In defending the underdog, the youngest Magrath simultaneously defends herself.
This apparent lack of interest in her crime and in the welfare of her estranged husband indicates Babe s true interests lay elsewhere in underdogs.
But stop there for a moment; dont give him the advantage of a chance to cloud the issue by that purely automatic sympathy for the underdog simply because he is under.
Seymour Martin Lipset, speaking at the Hebrew University, warned that Israel s biggest problem is likely to be that Shultz is a do-good Christian with sympathy for the underdog and the oppressed.
Aftermath Classics in Politics: The Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky 653 sacre, a feeling among many Israelis that over the years their country had strayed somehow from the ideals of Zionism, a feeling that its military successes had sapped its moral authority, transforming the nation from an underdog into a bully.
"World opinion is always on the side of the underdog.
When they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor Stalin have anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment of the underdog.
Goths and other darksiders are often loners and underdogs.
The underdog finds a voice.
Then too, many of them identify with the underdog and when they read the history of the Inquisition and other injustices committed by the Established Authorities they want no part of such evil.
Picking up strangers as they wander along the path of life, they have the propensity both to care for the underdog, and themselves be victimized.
For John Page, the angel that rode in the whirlwind of the American Revolution and directed the storm indicated that the hand of God was on the side of the underdog, the small emergent communities of the new America in their long struggle to overthrow imperial power.
After all, what began in 1939 was only a European war between Poland and, on the other side, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with Britain and France siding with the underdog more in word than deed.
Like Tolkien's hobbits, the English considered themselves the plucky little underdogs pitted against an all-knowing, all-powerful foe.
* Not * Admittedly, the Americans liked nothing better than to think of themselves as the plucky underdogs.
The engine of history, thus, was moved forward by the dialectical struggle between those who controlled the means, the ruling class, and those in antithetical and necessarily underdog relationship with them.
Or will it be Johnson and his underdog team of designer Christians?
Gould is a famous defender of underdogs and outcasts, and he deplored the "ritualistic ridicule" (Gould 1982b, p.
3 Citing examples such as how the story of Eve and the serpent is treated, or how the figure of Cain is sometimes elevated, Jonas asserted: This opting for the other side, for the traditionally infamous, is a heretical method, and much more serious than a merely sentimental siding with the underdog, let alone mere indulgence in speculative freedom.
Hunt argues that these villains are represented in terms of a lurking fascism (the logical conclusion of the authoritarian drift) at odds with Regan s underdog populism .
5 GOD THE MECHANIC Science loves an underdog, and like any teacher of science, I've got a slew of underdog stories that I relate to my students.
My own gallery of underdog heroes includes Barbara McClintock, whose decades-long studies of corn genetics showed that genes can "jump" from one position to another on the chromosome; Stanley Pruisner, who may (or may not) 2 have shown that infectious protein particles are capable of causing disorders like mad cow disease; and Thomas Cech, 130 FINDING DARWIN'S GOD whose graduate students Paula Grabowski and Arthur Zaug at the University of Colorado showed that enzymes need not be made from proteins that under the right conditions, RNA could act as an enzyme.
Each of these discoveries was revolutionary, each directly contradicted prevailing wisdom in the field, and in each case the work of the underdog pushed science along to a new understanding of the workings of nature.
Does this mean that our current ideas about evolution might be modified, updated, or even thrown out altogether by a crusading underdog?
The latest would-be underdog is Michael Behe, a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Some biologists have toyed with the idea of macromutations, but the topic is still very much the underdog to micromutational studies.
It has been argued that traditions of social justice impel Jewish artists to create imagery of the underdog.
Baer lost the title in his first defense on June 13, 1935, to Jim Braddock, The Cinderella Man, who was listed as a 10 1 underdog.
Despite putting $50 million of his own money into the campaign, Bloomberg was a decided underdog, but he received a last-minute endorsement from Giuliani, who became nationally known for his handling of a city in crisis after terrorists struck on Sept.
I gave praise to Mont, while his people mourned him (Lichtheim in COS) Both Sinuhe and David are underdog warriors who surprisingly vanquish the enemy champion with his own weapon (I Sam 17:51).
His writings are marked by a deep compassion for the underdog and a sensitive lyrical quality.
However, while evincing sympathy for the Jews as the historic underdog of Western society, Gandhi was less sympathetic to the Jewish religion.
The story combines the elements of fairy tales in which an underdog wins a surprise victory against a daunting foe, with the theological message that victory or defeat depends not on might or power but on divine will (Rof ).
The considerable foreign coverage that Israel receives, and the sympathy in western liberal opinion for the Palestinians as the underdog in the Arab-Israeli conflict, increased the importance for the Foreign Ministry and the Army Spokesman s Division to brief the foreign media about events and give them access to cover them.
The New York Post during the 1940s and into the 1960s, under the ownership of Dorothy Schiff, a descendant of Jacob Schiff, and the editorship of James Wechsler, gave voice to liberal and underdog causes while walking a financial tightrope.
All three newspapers succeeded on a formula of vigorous promotion, sensationalism, sympathy with labor and the underdog, and innovations in illustration and typography.
Their traditional liberalism had made them accustomed to the posture of strong supporters of the underdog; they were now suddenly forced to defend their own status, their neighborhoods, their safety and the adequate education of their children.
Fast-forward a year and the picture looks far diff erent for the underdog chipmaker.
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The fantastic fiction of the fin de sie` cle 199 Cambridge Collections Online Cambridge University Press, 2007 The scenario in which plucky human underdogs successfully defeat an invasion of Earth by hideous alien super-beings has been irresistible to Hollywood, so that The War of the Worlds has been Wells s most filmed novel.
It spoke volumes for the inhabitants of Earth, but mainly that they were soft, riddled with unnecessary guilt, self-doubt, and pity for their society's underdogs.
But in Starside underdogs were eaten.
Except, as the Necroscope was well aware, it wouldn't go down well if he stuck the boot into an underdog.
You create a topdog and an underdog, and so there is conflict.
Jus t because he is a boss, whatsoever he does looks bad, appears bad, because de ep down you resent that you are an underdog and somebody is a topdog.
You resent the fact of being an underdog, so whatsoever is said looks bad, but yo u cannot react; it will be too costly.
It is creating a division in yourself -- the division of the topdog and the underdog, the division of the superior and the inferior, the division of the saint and the sinner, the division of good and bad the division, basically, of God and devil.
Just because he is a boss, whatsoever he does looks bad, appears bad, because deep down you resent that you are an underdog and somebody is a topdog.
You resent the fact of being an underdog, so whatsoever is said looks bad, but you cannot react; it will be too costly.
You create a topdog and an underdog, and so there is conflict.
It is creating a division in yourself -- the division of the topdog and the underdog, the division of the superior and the inferior, the division of the saint and the sinner, the division of good and bad the division, basically, of God and devil.
It was touching to see him identified with those who lose, with the 'underdog.'
People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for some underdogs anyway.
When, for instance, a Chaplin, or a Norman Wisdom, or some such little fellow portrays the eternal underdog we have an instant recognition of something more true to life than comic genius can ever simulate.
People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for some underdogs anyway.
People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for some underdogs anyway.
Despite (or perhaps because of) their ugliness, and the fact that they are enslaved underdogs of a much uglier ruling class, they appeal to a wide range of players and have been a surprising success.
This is an extremely valuable capacity in almost any kind of conflict, especially if the player is the underdog.
You need the keep the players in the balance sweet spot for as long as is practical in order to keep the game fun and let the underdogs have a chance to catch up.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
Here was an underdoga capable-looking one, tooout to seize power.
The boasted majesty of law was a majesty to which the underdogs only were expected to look up to in fear and trepidation.
Annually, however, he went abroad, telling the story of the underdog, usually making the big circuit from the East to the West, and stopping at a certain little cabin within hearing distance of the whistles of Manhattan, where his first disciple worked in solitude mainly, and against the stream.
Sometimes the underdog wins.
And lots of other underdogs will follow the bottle-washers.
They help out the underdog and punish evildoers.
They knew by bitter experience what it was to run about to no purpose, to beg for work, and to beg for their wages, and to haggle over them in short, to be the underdog.
They knew by bitter experience what it was to run about to no purpose, to beg for work, and to beg for their wages, and to haggle over them in short, to be the underdog.
Remember what you said just now about forcing the pampered women to work when they were the underdog.
Nevertheless, I do not expect to play the part of underdog.
I don't hold no spite agin' the young lady which I never knew womenfolk yet that didn't take the side of the underdog.
Momma had all the insolence of the underdog.
You win and I'm the underdog.
You've got a great reputation for helping the underdog.
She was sure that in his uncanny fashion, he would pick the underdog in the three-way fight and turn the odds in Doug's favor.
The Gay Old Dog 8 --------------------------------------- 11 One Basket The staid and harassed brother of three unwed and selfish sisters is an underdog.
Thus Emma Goldman's most striking characteristic, her sympathy with the underdog, already became manifest in these early years.
How pathetic is the stupidity of the underdog; how terribly tragic!
Nowand on this point, Carhaix, who is distressed by these theories, can't reprehend meI am for the underdog.
It was too eager to find excuses for successful and admired men like Dumont, too ready to laugh at and despise underdogs like Fanshaw.
A quarter of a million underdogs had turned against their masters.
Thus Emma Goldman's most striking characteristic, her sympathy with the underdog, already became manifest in these early years.
How pathetic is the stupidity of the underdog; how terribly tragic!
He was the man of the square deal, who instinctively resented injustice done to those who could not protect themselves; the friend of the underdog, the companion of the self-reliant and the self-respecting.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
Her eyes glow with the gratification of the underdog turned top dog, if only verbally, if only for a while, if only while cleansing my house.
They pose as democrats, autocrats, strong men, underdogs - anything to get Western aid and investment flowing.
It might wear the guise of internal strife, of isolationist policies, of wounded retreat, of terrorism - all weapons of the deceived and trampled upon underdogs.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
His choices in life reflected the Galbally image as champions of the underdog, and the family shared a background with the working class.
The boasted "majesty of law" was a majesty to which the underdogs only were expected to look up to in fear and trepidation.
Annually, however, he went abroad, telling the story of the underdog, usually making the big circuit from the East to the West, and stopping at a certain little cabin within hearing distance of the whistles of Manhattan, where his first disciple worked in solitude mainly, and against the stream.
A quarter of a million underdogs had turned against their masters.
They knew by bitter experience what it was to run about to no purpose, to beg for work, and to beg for their wages, and to haggle over them--in short, to be the underdog.
They knew by bitter experience what it was to run about to no purpose, to beg for work, and to beg for their wages, and to haggle over them--in short, to be the underdog.
Remember what you said just now about forcing the pampered women to work when they were the underdog.
They knew by bitter experience what it was to run about to no purpose, to beg for work, and to beg for their wages, and to haggle over them--in short, to be the underdog.
They knew by bitter experience what it was to run about to no purpose, to beg for work, and to beg for their wages, and to haggle over them--in short, to be the underdog.
Remember what you said just now about forcing the pampered women to work when they were the underdog.
Nevertheless, I do not expect to play the part of underdog.
"A large part of what motivates me," Rama once confided, "is my concern for the underdog."
His interest in helping hundreds, even thousands, of women seemed a genuine reflection of his commitment to the underdog.
Not the violin or the cello-- the viola: underdog of all orchestral instruments.
The staid and harassed brother of three unwed and selfish sisters is an underdog.
Get the underdogs!"
Did not the sufferings of the underdogs, of the disinherited masses, move him to the core?
It was too eager to find excuses for successful and admired men like Dumont, too ready to laugh at and despise underdogs like Fanshaw.
Excite his sympathy with some village underdog.
The underdogs had done it, the kids from the other side of Magazine, the kids who spoke that funny way so that everyone knew they were from the Irish Channel.
"For a highly trained professional to even lay a hand on Darius is considered a great accomplishment, but for a pair of sad looking underdogs like you to wipe the floor with him is nothing short of miraculous.
"I always have a thing for the underdog."
I think even being poor helped - teachers saw me as an underdog rising.
Haagner treated Evan with detachment and refused to be hurried, which gave Conrad the (decently concealed) satisfaction of an underdog seeing his master slip on a banana skin.
He met her here, courted her here, and enjoyed their shared sense of being part of an underdog enterprise.
"We're suckers for the underdog."
To many of these people, Miranda was simply the rebel and the underdog.
To my mind, it is nearer the mark to say that much of African folklore is inspired by sympathy with the underdog, [1.
In man there is implanted a sporting instinct to side with the underdog, but this is in man, the individual.
Man may sympathize with the underdog, but he wants to side with the winner.
DELLA STREET, his devoted secretary, whose soft heart for the underdog is equaled only by her concern for Perry Mason's safety.
"Women often bear the aura of underdog.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
She enjoyed her freedom, and possessed herself with a sort of virginal passion; the warmth which she would have lavished on Bosinney, and of which-- given her Forsyte tenacity--he must surely have tired, she now expended in championship of the underdogs and budding 'geniuses' of the artistic world.
In the article Albini said he could understand why he was the underdog - he was getting up in years a little and some folks thought he was past it because he'd lost by a TKO to Sugar Boy Masters in his last fight.
The central meaning shared by these verbs is "to express approval or encouragement in audible form, especially by clapping": applauded at the end of the concert; cheered when the home team scored; rooting for the underdog in the tennis championship.
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The Devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog.
Clotho and Lachesis, who had been standing at the top of the hill and looking as anxious as workmen who have wagered their Christmas bonuses on a prizefight underdog, now rushed down to where Ralph and Lois stood with their foreheads once more pressed together, looking into each other's eyes like lovestruck teenagers.
Now, "Whisper" is the underdog of what the squaresyule press calls "Scandal Sheet Journalism."
Once again, the Shimazu were destined to prove themselves the master underdogs, winning a remarkable victory at the Battle of Okinawate.
They felt for the underdog against the big corporation or insurance company, and they were more liberal with other people's money.
He spoke without notes, and held the courtroom captivated as he portrayed himself as the underdog, the friend and partner of the jury, who, together with him, would find the truth, and punish this man for his monstrous deed.
They feel for the underdog and distrust white corporate America.
'Perhaps Felix cares for the underdog.'
I mean," Bagman continued, lowering his voice still further, "you're the underdog here, Harry.
And, as it turns out, the underdogs were getting their asses kicked by the crowd favorites.
Of course, the underdog team immediately came up from thirty points behind to obliterate its rivals.
There was talk of re-hiring to Felice, to blockade the wormhole in turn for the former underdogs.
England never bets on the underdog.
It was touching to see him identified with those who lose, with the 'underdog.'
Since no one can get a line on them, they're heavy underdogs."
It was his habit to champion the underdog, though this case was trying even his generous tolerances.
As it was, before the bout had even started, the Legion's representative would be seen as an underdog.
That makes the smaller guy the underdog no matter what he does.
According to Viele and an Internet report, Gracie took a hesitant Ismail to the ground early in the fight, but the underdog quickly appeared to gain confidence.
It's one thing to be an underdog, but it's quite another to be easy pickings."
This was one time the underdog had no chance of pulling off an upset.
Somehow, in spite of everything they can do, a few of their sons always wind up with horribly humanitarian ideas-churls are human, justice for all men, sympathy with the underdog, all men should be happy-downright subversive."
People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for some underdogs anyway.
In the article Albini said he could understand why he was the underdog - he was getting up in years a little and some folks thought he was past it because he'd lost by a TKO to Sugar Boy Masters in his last fight.
You even root for baseball teams that are cataclysmic underdogs.
Therefore when the battle is joined, The underdog will win.
Therefore when the battle is joined, The underdog will win.
She always had a soft spot for the underdog.
You had to be on the side of underdogs because they weren't overdogs.
When, for instance, a Chaplin, or a Norman Wisdom, or some such little fellow portrays the eternal underdog we have an instant recognition of something more true to life than comic genius can ever simulate.
You even root for baseball teams that are cataclysmic underdogs.
His choices in life reflected the Galbally image as champions of the underdog, and the family shared a background with the working class.
My sentiments are drawn to the underdog.
Linux used to be an underdog operating system, which has now found itself in enterprise computing arena.
Another drawback with the Jabber system is its underdog status in a frag- mented IM market.
It is about MySQL a feisty, 1 --------------------------------------- 24 2 Over view of MySQL lightning-fast underdog of Scandinavian origin that has surprised many devel- opers with its capability to outperform many of the giants.
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The underdog was always trying to kill the upper, and if the latter was not strong enough to protect his loot, he deserved everything he got.
They felt for the underdog against the big corporation or insurance company, and they were more liberal with other people's money.
He spoke without notes, and held the courtroom captivated as he portrayed himself as the underdog, the friend and partner of the jury, who, together with him, would find the truth, and punish this man for his monstrous deed.
"Women often bear the aura of underdog.
Chorus: On any given night Anything can happen When the underdog is hungry The favorite might fall With all the people Yellin' and clappin' Anything can happen Anything at all She drove a baby blue Ferrari She was all silk and diamonds Livin' at the top No need for social climbin' I asked her for a ride She said: "Right here by my side" We went to her place Overlooking the bay She said: "There's just one bed Will that be okay?"
When the Heart Rules the Mind GTR Steve Hackett Steve Howe Mother protect me, protect me from myself Lately I can't tell, who really are my friends Burning the candle, the candle at both ends Through crowds, across floors Each night I just pretend When the heart rules the mind One look and love is blind When you want the dream to last Take a chance forget the past Watching the actor, that takes the stage by storm Stealing the limelight, while we're in the wings Sometimes the hero, must play the underdog But I don't feel the same I must have everything When the heart rules the mind One look and love is blind When you want the dream to last Take a chance forget the past Seasons will change You must move on Follow your dream From: pandafreak777@webtv.
Smith had not seen her face, but she was a girl, and sweetly made and in danger; and though he had not the re-putation of a chivalrous man, something in her hopeless huddle at his feet touched that chord of sympathy for the underdog that stirs in every Earthman, and he pushed her gently- into the corner behind him and jerked out his gun, just as the first of the running mob rounded the corner.
Emily Bronte makes youroot for the underdog, whomever he may be.
08 of a down-on-his-luck underdog.
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I was the underdog who trained for this `fight' beyond all human expectations.
Per- haps it was inevitable that a renegade and underdog like Ro would sympathize with the ultimate under- dogs--the Maquis.
"You have my assurance that it is for freedom and justice, the man on the street, the underdogs and the L.
Hecker here that I haven't always been a liberal and a champion of the underdog," explained Whorf.
Emily Bronte makes you root for the underdog, whomever he may be.
You even root for baseball teams that are cataclysmic underdogs.
He met her here, courted her here, and enjoyed their shared sense of being part of an underdog enterprise.
Catcalls and jeers filled the air, and I gathered from the general demeanor of the wagering crowd that the blonde man had been the underdog.
Smith had not seen her face, but she was a girl, and sweetly made and in danger; and though he had not the re-putation of a chivalrous man, something in her hopeless huddle at his feet touched that chord of sympathy for the underdog that stirs in every Earthman, and he pushed her gently- into the corner behind him and jerked out his gun, just as the first of the running mob rounded the corner.
He championed the underdog " There was a growl from Christopher.
Naturally most of the Navy personnel were silently rooting for the underdog, the fleeing miniature and the child, Eliza crossing the ice.
"You have my assurance that it is for freedom and justice, the man on the street, the underdogs and the L.
I mean," Bagman continued, lowering his voice still further, "you're the underdog here, Harry.
[from OVER- + DOG noun, after underdog.
underdog, noun.
underdogger noun a person who supports the underdog in a fight or contest L20.
under&sm;doggery noun the state or condition of being an underdog M20.
underdogger noun a person who supports the underdog in a fight or contest L20.
under_sm_doggery noun the state or condition of being an underdog M20.
upper dog rare [after underdog] the victorious party in a contest; a person in a superior or dominant position.
In the article Albini said he could understand why he was the underdog - he was getting up in years a little and some folks thought he was past it because he'd lost by a TKO to Sugar Boy Masters in his last fight.
Clotho and Lachesis, who had been standing at the top of the hill and looking as anxious as workmen who have wagered their Christmas bonuses on a prizefight underdog, now rushed down to where Ralph and Lois stood with their foreheads once more pressed together, looking into each other's eyes like lovestruck teenagers.
You even root for baseball teams that are cataclysmic underdogs.
She always had a soft spot for the underdog.
You had to be on the side of underdogs because they weren't overdogs.
Once aroused by the controversy, Beal spared neither money nor energy in defending the party he considered the underdog in the struggle.
The boasted majesty of law was a majesty to which the underdogs only were expected to look up to in fear and trepidation.
How pathetic is the stupidity of the underdog; how terribly tragic!
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The real Maguire de- a girlfriend (Moynihan) who s a young doc- plays underdog pitcher Ryan, on his last plantation.
Spillane s heroes are champions of the underdog; they protect women and children against multiple menaces.
It means: * below or underneath, as in undercarriage, underground, undermine, underpants * less than normal, as in underestimate, undernourished, underprivileged, underweight * lower in status or rank, as in underdog, undergraduate, undersecretary, understudy Under- combines freely with both English and Latin/French words, and with nouns, verbs and adjectives.
as fathers, money-lenders, and pimps were the villains, while the underdogs those who held little power or social status such as the young man still under his father s control, the slave, and the prostitute were empowered and made comic heroes.
The Amazin Mets, as they were known, provided thrills for every fan who roots for the underdog.
Rocky Everybody loves an underdog.
The Kramdens and Nortons embody the yearnings and frustrations of postwar, urban America--the perpetual underdogs in search of a jackpot.
Six years later, Kintner was named president of the ABC network, which was just beginning to provide television service and was the clear underdog in competition with NBC and CBS.
* * * Mulk Raj Anand is the champion of the underdog.
His concern for the underdog does not take the form of communism he is above all a humanist, and his humanism embraces all aspects of life, from contemporary slums to ancient Indian art and philosophy.
This interest in underdogs may explain why Bujold is sometimes called a feminist writer.
Grisham s protagonists are always underdogs.
Absent are the typical underdog heroes, and in their place is a trio of crooked judges serving prison time, a ruthless presidential candidate, and a conniving CIA chief.
The novel of the revolution, which started with the 1915 publication of Los de abajo ( The underdogs ) by Mariano Azuela (1873 1952) and expanded with Marti n Luis Guzma n s novels, takes a bitter look at the revolution, the violence, and its leaders.
Moyca Newell; lobbied for state police force in NY (1917); published 1st book, Justice to All, with introduction by Theodore Roosevelt (1917); published several magazine articles and books, the most famous of which was Mother India (1927), which tended to paint an unsubstantiated portrait of gender behavior among Hindus; her writings often advocated for the voiceless underdog and argued against independence for developing nations (e.
When he was 11, a fateful event altered the course of his life: in a street fight between schoolboys Cousin came to the rescue of the underdog, whose mother was looking on.
The Shiv Sena has championed the indigenous Marathis, the underdogs of cosmopolitan Mumbai, who have angrily resented the economic success of industrious, bettereducated migrants from South India in securing whitecollar jobs and running lucrative small businesses.
The Finnish resistance provided the world with a heroic story of an underdog fighting against overwhelming odds, but it also exposed the illusion of Soviet military might.
Mozi convinced the king of Chu not to employ the ladder militarily against Song, which represents his values of loving everybody and defending the underdog.
From then on he starred in dozens of other movies, usually playing the underdog oppressed by upper-caste or wealthy villains.
Sot s sympathy for the underdog and political idealism were continuing themes in later works, such as Khabuankan seri chin (The Free Chinese Movement) and the long and incomplete Raya.
Boryokudan has replaced the historical label of Yakuza, a slang term which Japanese gang members gave themselves to depict an underdog image.
The media love an underdog, and there are few more appealing than a group of mothers fighting for the health of their children.
Examples abound of products that have been marketed as the rebel or otherwise atypical choice and of candidates who have run successful campaigns as underdogs.
In 1946 Fortas cofounded a Washington law firm whose corporate clients made him rich and influential, but he contributed his time to defending the rights of underdogs and alleged security risks.
McKeldin as a champion of the underdog, Sobeloff reflected in his judicial opinions a consistent concern both for meticulous DUE PROCESS and for the rights of minorities, the underprivileged, the dissenter, and the prisoner.
Ironically, in the increasingly polarized world of the Cold War, it was this Chinese rearticulation of Lenin s two stages that provided the basis for a third way, when in April 1955, in the words of the American author Richard Wright (1908 1960), the despised, the insulted, the hurt, the dispossessed in short, the underdogs of the human race met in Bandung, Indonesia (Wright 1956, p.
This was the backside, the recycled, throwaway fashion, an underground phenomenon, the underdog: not so extroverted as English fashion, not so sexy as Italian fashion, not so cerebral as Japanese fashion.
They also help to explain unexpected outcomes such as the lackluster performance of talented individuals or the triumph of an underdog who exceeds all expectations.
It celebrates the unappreciated mullet, the underdog of seafood, and serves up 10 tons of fried and smoked mullet, plus vast quantities of mullet dogs, mullet filets on buns.
His legal activities in support of the underprivileged considerably reinforced his reputation as a defender of the underdog in Wilhelmian Germany.
Taxation no Tyranny shows Johnson as an authoritarian Tory, though in his off-the-cuff remarks he often supported the underdog against authority.
Second, it may be that the symbolic interactionist picture of society is far too optimistic, and that it operates with an over-romanticized conception of human potentiality, a conception that gives the underdog , the rebel , and the deviant almost superhuman status.
His first collection of short stories, Rusul al-Insaniyya (Baghdad, 1946; Messengers of humanity) contains stories in a naturalist vein, expressing sympathy with the underdogs of NURI, ABD AL-MALIK E n c y c l o p e d i a o f THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 1 7 0 3 Baghdad society.
Instead, his name is more widely recalled in constant retellings of the Black Sox scandal, and how he was alleged to have planned the fix by bribing several players of the Chicago White Sox to throw the World Series to the underdog Cincinnati Reds.
But the notebook s design pitfalls, coupled with its costly, underpowered configuration, make it hard to root for this underdog.
He was 23 at the time, fired with youthful passion for the underdog.
Thomas s ancestors had been Quakers, and he and Dorothy always sided with the underdog.
The Ministry of Information identified Scott as an ideal subject for films showcasing British life and character, emphasizing independence, toughness of fibre, and sympathy with the underdog.
44 Obomsawin has chosen an ideal medium for her intercultural messages of compassion, understanding, and toleration, the place where the sympathetic mind lives most naturally in our postmodern mediascape being, I believe, within the documentary form, with its great tradition of listening to outsider voices, pulling for the underdog, and pushing for social change.
Compared to the rest of the field, we were underdogs, a ragtag crew staying in a tiny hotel, three guys to a room, with no money.
He delights in casting Virgin as the cheeky underdog, faster on its feet and nipping at the heels of big business.
EVERY UNDERDOG MUST HAVE HIS DAY Branson is very good at positioning Virgin as the underdog (even though when viewed as a group, Virgin is actually a big company in its own right).
As the underdog, they have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
They also enable Virgin to play the role of the underdog, something that works to its advantage with consumers, employees and the media.
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But if the rebel underdog could resort to low blows, sucker punches, and head butts in an anything goes match, he would surely win, justifying the means to the end victory.
We were the underdogs the guys who have better technology but nobody s ever heard of.
This was the point where we stopped seeming like total underdogs and people started to know about us.
You don t pick on the underdog.
Boycotting the underdogs was not their aim.
com AMD Is Creating A New Category Of Enthusiast For the last few years, AMD has transformed itself from an underdog incumbent to a mainstream alternative with big OEM support.
Our mean prediction for the number of points by which the home team wins equals favorite rating - underdog rating.
* Our mean prediction for the number of points by which the home team wins equals favorite rating–underdog rating.
On the other hand, humanitarian and egalitarian values, internal motivation to avoid prejudice, and empathy and sympathetic identification with the underdog would help to counteract prejudice and its expression.
Further, he argued that the top dogs maintain their power by a series of devices that work against the underdogs organizing a resistance.
Sometimes the underdog wins.
not developed enough underdog n 1.
Many of the target children came to identify with the underdog role and became the playthings of whoever persecuted them.
We must never forget that, though these underdog teams were not made DANGER!
Instead, the president and faculty developed a new history, where the uni- versity had always been a school for underdogs.
Welcome to the real world, where selling is a contact sport, where often the prospect and a person who already has the business are the home team, and where you are the visiting underdog.
We live in a coun- try that lauds entrepreneurs and loves underdogs.
Like Fiorello La Guardia, a Republican congressman from New York, he was the champion of the underdog and directed most of his Senate orations against the establishment forces that dared to tread on the workingman.
With his great mane of dark hair, fiery orations, and adoption of underdog causes, Borah became a legend in Washington but never a potent force.
He won the mayoralty because of his dogged defense of the man in the street and the underdog.
Then too, our culture has a bias for the underdog, for blue-collar effort, for the com- mon man and for the egalitarian approach, that somehow has been equated with the average.
In spite of our underdog bias, however, our culture has traditionally discouraged true underdogs from succeeding, whether by tolerating poor inner-city schools or by erect- ing glass ceilings in the workplace there are not very many Smith and Daughters, even in the world of family businesses.
Our underdog victor which they then mated to a six-speed box man tires, and lag.
com --------------------------------------- 104 Wagging The Dog AMD Is Creating A New Category Of Enthusiast or the last few years, AMD has transformed install two dual-core processors (or two quad- FF itself from an underdog incumbent to a core processors, for that matter) with 2GB of mainstream alternative with big OEM support.
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e I think I d go insan Through 1963, Dylan kept composing about and sinr angind g for the poo the underdog though his appetite for message songs was fast diminish- ing.
He has brought attention to the legitimate complaints of racial minorities in the corporate world and has championed the underdog with astounding energy.
He may lose some bets, anger impatient superiors, and vex overbur- dened co-workers, but he s still a sucker for the underdog.
sympathy for underdogs who are too stubborn to give up.
When Bully Behavior (List A) Pushes Your Hot Buttons Bullies must reign supreme and hence engage in a top dog underdog approach.
For a long lime he has been the underdog and then he finds himself on top having people to order about and shout at.
His ghting underdog role surely enhanced his personal appeal.
Jews became more sensitive to cries of in- justice, more ready for alliances with other underdogs.
Persuasion is the means by which the coach of an underdog team inspires players to win.
And this view is elaborated in books centered on the story of underdogs defending justice and freedom by taking their cases to the Supreme Court.
We have all heard examples of an underdog team beating more skilled opponents because of their higher level of motivation.
If both animals win on the same clock tick, you may want to favor the tortoise (the "underdog"), or you may want to print It's a tie.
Of all the Star Trek games in production, SFC was considered the underdog as our game focused on the real-time tactical simulation of naval starships based on the gameplay of a 20-year-old board game called Star Fleet Battles.
It Page 164 also handles MP3 and TOP 25 video playback, but it Page 120 72The best underdog desktops, 52 wont replace your affordable notebooks, high-resolution Page 131 iPod or portable DVD digital cameras, input devices, and playeryet.
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Microsoft has played the underdog to Oracle in the database market, the upstart to BEA in the enterprise application integration (EAI) market, and second fiddle to Sun and Unix in e-commerce and web servers.
Microsoft historically has been an underdog in the enterprise tools and servers market.
Linux is a little harder to get hold of than other operating systems simply because of its status as an underdog.
We all know that Microsoft Office is the most popular and powerful application suite on the planet but deep down inside, doesn t everyone like the underdog, like its little brother, Works?
But if you were a 9-to-1 underdog, you're better off folding your hand.
never It's as dramatic, but in the long run, you'll come out far the better of it when you are the favorite and your oppe nents are the underdogs.
If they took him on together, Krieger would have gone from a favorite individually to an underdog against their col- lective efforts.
Instead, his name is more widely recalled in constant retellings of the Black Sox scandal, and how he was alleged to have planned the fix by bribing several players of the Chicago White Sox to throw the World Series to the underdog Cincinnati Reds.
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the team or person not expected to succeed It's exciting when the underdog wins in a tournament.
You are always taking the part of underdog!
5 Are underdog, undercoat and overtax, overripe compounds or prefixed derivatives?
He was the man of the square deal, who instinctively resented injustice done to those who could not protect themselves; the friend of the underdog, the companion of the self-reliant and the self-respecting.
underdog.
underdog SYLLABICATION: un der dog PRONUNCIATION: ndr-d g, -dg NOUN: 1.
OTHER FORMS: ap plauda ble ADJECTIVE ap plauda bly ADVERB ap plauder NOUN SYNONYMS: applaud, cheer, root3 These verbs mean to express approval or encouragement audibly: applauded at the end of the concert; cheered when the home team scored; rooting for the underdog in the tennis championship.
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underdog NOUN: A person living under very unhappy circumstances: loser, miserable, underprivileged, unfortunate, wretch.
unfortunate NOUN: A person living under very unhappy circumstances: loser, miserable, underdog, underprivileged, wretch.
underprivileged NOUN: A person living under very unhappy circumstances: loser, miserable, underdog, unfortunate, wretch.
wretch NOUN: A person living under very unhappy circumstances: loser, miserable, underdog, underprivileged, unfortunate.
miserable NOUN: A person living under very unhappy circumstances: loser, underdog, underprivileged, unfortunate, wretch.
A person living under very unhappy circumstances: miserable, underdog, underprivileged, unfortunate, wretch.
NUMBER: 1162 AUTHOR: Abba Eban, Foreign Minister of Israel QUOTATION: When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog.
In his column Broun constantly championed the underdog, criticized social injustice, and backed emerging labor unions.
Darrow soon renounced his lucrative practice to defend the underdog.
They display MacInnes s talent for acute observation, sympathy for the underdog, and interest in sociology.
An early and prevalent type was the picaresque novel, in which the protagonist, a social underdog, has a series of episodic adventures in which he sees much of the world around him and comments satirically upon it.
The indigenous people, the poor, the underdog of any sort now entered literature as an urgent social problem and not as an element of local color.
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If both animals win on the same clock tick, you may want to favor the tortoise (the "underdog"), or you may want to print It's a tie.
If both animals win on the same clock tick, you may want to favor the tortoise (the "underdog"), or you may want to print It's a tie.
If both animals win on the same tick of the clock, you may want to favor the tortoise (the "underdog"), or you may want to display It's a tie.
Idiom Home Idiom Index U Idiom Index U u-turn U-turn ugly turn ugly uh-huh uh-huh uh-uh uh-uh umbrage take umbrage uncertain in no uncertain terms uncle Bob's your uncle I'll be a monkey's uncle monkey's uncle under buckle under cool under pressure crack under the strain down under drink you under the table get under my skin go under hot under the collar keep under wraps start a fire under him sweep under the carpet under a spell under arrest under control under fire under his own steam under my belt under my breath under my care under my skin under my wing under oath under pressure under the influence of alcohol under the table under the weather under the wire under way under wraps under your thumb water under the bridge went under underdog underdog underground the underground underhanded underhanded undoing be my undoing undone come undone unglued come unglued unsung unsung hero until do me for/do me until until you're blue.
underdog the player or team that is not likely to win The Sharks are underdogs this year.
As for the disappearanceof the underdogssaidto ensuresurvivalof the fittest, it is far froman inevitableby-productof quotation.
Asbach(1994)arguedthatthereis a symbolicaspectto suchma- terial, maintainingthat the appeal of violent cartoonslies in childrens identificationwith the underdogsas they are seen to triumphover physi- cally more powerfulaggressors(e.
In the case of cold fusion, such experimentswere designed and the underdogs lost.
Such claimed results affect both the cam- paigns and, it is argued, some voters: a "bandwagon effect" and an "underdog effect" have both been demonstrated.
Todays most destructive terrorists are not the underdogs of yesterday.
It in production,SFC wasconsidered the is a commonjoke in the industry thatif underdog as our gamefocusedon the Blizzard everneededcashin a hurry, real-timetacticalsimulationof naval theycouldprinta box calledStarCraft starshipsbasedon the gameplayof a II or DiabloIII andjustship a million 20-year-oldboard gamecalledStar emptyboxesjustfor the pre-orders!
Guerrilla Mindset (I am a new player and "underdog" in the marketplace I serve).
Not from a very strong position kind of an underdog.
Befriend an underdog in order to create a lasting friendship.
Each year the Oakland A's seemed more the financial underdog and each year they won more games.
As Soriano zips around first base, I yell at the television—I hadn't come here to watch the underdog lose—and only just stop myself from saying that the fans should sue for malpractice.
Although I m not a betting man, I, too, was secretly pulling for Nora the underdog.
Although I m not a betting man, I, too, was secretly pulling for Nora the underdog.
Although I m not a betting man, I, too, was secretly pulling for Nora the underdog.
Although I m not a betting man, I, too, was secretly pulling for Nora the underdog.
I mean," Bagman 228 continued, lowering his voice still further, "you're the underdog here, Harry.
2 Some types of compounds in English Noun + Noun landlord chain-smoker snail mail Adjective high chair blackboard wildfire Adjective + Adjective red-hot icy-cold bittersweet Noun Preposition overdose underdog underarm Noun Adjective sky-blue earthbound skin-deep + Noun Verb + Noun go-cart swearword scarecrow Preposition + Verb oversee overstuff underfeed Generally speaking, the part of speech of the whole compound is the same as the part of speech of tie rightmost member of the compound, which is termed the head of the compound.
You are always taking the part of underdog!
And ended up getting a chance to play and became kind of the underdog favorites of the people running the Warped Tour and were allowed to stay.
Gestalt builds a topdog and an underdog.
Determined, outspoken, angry, combative, and domineering, the Eight, when healthy, begins to show traits of the Two--the ability to identify with others, and therefore compassion and a concern with justice and the underdog emerge.
It seems to me that rather than having a gestalt topdog and underdog that fight, a psychoanalytic unconscious that tortures you wantonly, or a TA parent and child that don't mix very well, or any other aspect of your personality that leads to limitations, you should make up a psychotherapy for each client in which all the parts flexibly generate choices for coping.
Whether you call it "parent- child-adult," "topdog-underdog," using chairs or words doesn't matter as long as you label and sort a person's behavior, dissociating parts of them, one from the other.
4 BeOS The Be Operating System may be an underdog in terms of total number of users, but it deserves a place in this book for one big reason: BeOS is optimized from the ground up for handling audio/video streams like nobody's business, and is quickly becoming a new focal point for the digital audio community.
Qui-Gon was insistent on championing the causes of underdogs, of empathizing with creatures he found in some peculiar, inscrutable way he alone could comprehend sig^nificant in the scheme of things.
Qui-Gon was insistent on championing the causes of underdogs, of empathizing with creatures he found in some peculiar, inscrutable way he alone could comprehend sig- nificant in the scheme of things.
"You see, Zekk," Brakiss said, knitting his pale eyebrows together, "we are truly the underdogs in this struggle.
Your underdog team wins the NCAA basketball championship during March Madness.
It is about MySQL a feisty, 1 --------------------------------------- 23 2 Over view of MySQL lightning-fast underdog of Scandinavian origin that has surprised many devel- opers with its capability to outperform many of the giants.
Choose TogetherSoft if you want to be streamlined and agile, or if you like a powerful underdog.
The tune that it hummed was an odd one to human ears, but it concerned a race between aerial dragons and the bets that were placed on one of them, which had great odds against it, and how those bets were recouped by the heroic efforts of the underdog dragon which won the race even though it broke a wing in the last flap.
Convince him you're the underdog, and he'll never quit not while he breathes."
html convince him what you want done is to help the underdog, and he'll never quit not while he's breathing, anyway."
"I would have thought this was right up your alley, I mean it's got everything: murder, damsels in distress, your fixation with the underdog " "Look, Magnus, just because I know this stuff exists doesn't mean I want to roll around in it like a dog in dung."
So she wasstill the underdog, in a manner of speaking.
Instead, the president and faculty developed a new history, where the uni- versity had always been a school for underdogs.
Welcome to the real world, where selling is a contact sport, where often the prospect and a person who already has the business are the home team, and where you are the visiting underdog.
We live in a coun- try that lauds entrepreneurs and loves underdogs.
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Like Fiorello La Guardia, a Republican congressman from New York, he was the champion of the underdog and directed most of his Senate orations against the establishment forces that dared to tread on the workingman.
With his great mane of dark hair, fiery orations, and adoption of underdog causes, Borah became a legend in Washington but never a potent force.
He won the mayoralty because of his dogged defense of the man in the street and the underdog.
Then too, our culture has a bias for the the one hand, it underdog, for blue-collar effort, for the com- trumpets success, mon man and for the egalitarian approach, but on the that somehow has been equated with the other, it trashes average.
narrowly equates In spite of our underdog bias, however, success with our culture has traditionally discouraged position and true underdogs from succeeding, whether by tolerating poor inner-city schools or by erect- money.
If both animals win on the same clock tick, you may want to favor the tortoise (the "underdog"), or you may want to print It's a tie.
the-underdogs.
The mayor facing tour of the city, which caused the press corps to a city block of vacant, ruined buildings would begin singing the theme song from the old TV have looked too much like an underdog taking show, Gilligan s Island.
Right now, AMD needs all the money it can get because it s up to its eyes in debt, so this doesn t augur well for the underdog.
Although we hope it s not the case (as quite a few of us have a soft spot for the underdog), all of this appears to somewhat put AMD in the shade.
You are always taking the part of the underdog!
You are always taking the part of underdog!
The central meaning shared by these verbs is to express approval or encouragement in audible form, especially by clapping : applauded at the end of the concert; cheered when the home team scored; rooting for the underdog in the tennis championship.
This is about an election in Japan: It also is the first time since the Liberal Democratic Party came into existence in 1955 that the ruling conservatives face a parliamentary election as the underdogs.
The mayor hour tour of the city, which caused the press facing a city block of vacant, ruined buildings corps to begin singing the theme song from would have looked too much like an underdog the old TV show, Gilligan s Island.
Before launching his underdog bid for the presidency in 1990, Fujimori made a name for himself as the host of a television talk show dedicated to political analysis.
The ambidexterous genre of Mulla Nas: r ud-Din jokes (Hodja Nasruddin in Turkish), in which the famous clergyman is a scapegrace, a greedy fool when interacting with those less powerful than himself, and a foolish-wise underdog and trickster when interacting with those more powerful, offers additional rich examples of popular ambivalence toward clerical and other authorities.
Their plight is infinitely more satisfactory than that of a man in our own civilization who knows that he is (and will remain) nothing more than an underdog with no inner meaning to his life.
From the beginning, Leskov s prose conveyed deep compassion for the underdog.
Yet in retrospect, 1919 proved to be a disastrous year for baseball when in 1920 it was found that eight White Sox players had conspired with gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series to the underdog Cincinnati Reds.
The movie Hoosiers (1986), based on the basketball team from the town of Milan that won the state championship in the 1950s, also thrilled audiences who rooted for the underdog team.
Under Roosevelt s leadership, publicpolic y turned favorable to labor unions and government labor legislation as a way to promote economic recovery, protect the underdog in the employment relationship, and establish greater industrial democracy.
Menninger spent his life as a champion of the underdog.
Pierre Legendre highlighted underdogs love for superiors, and Pierre Ansart focused on how political passions are managed.
His campaign web site painted him as an underdog candidate by showing him in a black jumpsuit, suspended above a computer alluding to the theme Mission Impossible.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss Martial arts have always had a strong affinity for the Although the rules presented here will be of use to any underdog.
We sympathize with the underdogs the early New York Mets, the little guy who single handedly stands against powerful machine politics, the American ice hockey team that beat the great Russian squad in the 1980 Olympics.
Just because he is a boss, whatsoever he does looks bad, appears bad, because deep down you resent that you are an underdog and somebody is a topdog.
You resent the fact of being an underdog, so whatsoever is said looks bad, but you cannot react; it will be too costly.
It is creating a division in yourself -- the division of the topdog and the underdog, the division of the superior and the inferior, the division of the saint and the sinner, the division of good and bad the division, basically, of God and devil.
You create a topdog and an underdog, and so there is conflict.
Linux used to be an underdog operating system, which has now found itself in enterprise computing arena.
Sapphire RX800PRO If Gordon Freeman, our favorite bespectacled underdog, trips your gaming trigger more than an anonymous space marine, a graphics card such as Sapphire's RX800PRO might be the solution you're looking for.
In later years he was always reluctant to talk much about his youth and childhood, but his philosophical attitudes in life (mainly characterized by sympathy for the underdog and a thirst for the truth underlying outward appearances) were shaped and formed during these early years.
Lorca s outraged feeling of social justice and his sympathy for the underdog come through loud and clear.
Finally, he could not conceal his lofty regard for human beings, especially the underdogs, the oppressed, the impoverished and the hungry, the persecuted, the sickly, the mistreated.
"You have my assurance that it is for freedom and justice, the man on the street, the underdogs and the L.
Hecker here that I haven't always been a liberal and a champion of the underdog," explained Whorf.
Emily Bronte makes you root for the underdog, whomever he may be.
You even root for baseball teams that are cataclysmic underdogs.
He met her here, courted her here, and enjoyed their shared sense of being part of an underdog enterprise.
Catcalls and jeers filled the air, and I gathered from the general demeanor of the wagering crowd that the blonde man had been the underdog.
Smith had not seen her face, but she was a girl, and sweetly made and in danger; and though he had not the re-putation of a chivalrous man, something in her hopeless huddle at his feet touched that chord of sympathy for the underdog that stirs in every Earthman, and he pushed her gently- into the corner behind him and jerked out his gun, just as the first of the running mob rounded the corner.
Naturally most of the Navy personnel were silently rooting for the underdog, the fleeing miniature and the child, Eliza crossing the ice.
He championed the underdog " There was a growl from Christopher.
"You have my assurance that it is for freedom and justice, the man on the street, the underdogs and the L.
I mean," Bagman continued, lowering his voice still further, "you're the underdog here, Harry.
30 Through 1963, Dylan kept composing about and singing for the poor and the underdog though his appetite for message songs was fast diminish- ing.
sympathy for underdogs who are too stubborn to give up.
Case # 5: An Unreasonable Employee (with an underdog ego) You are supervising an employee with an "underdog" ego.
And this view is elaborated in books centered on the story of underdogs defending justice and freedom by taking their cases to the Supreme Court.
We have all heard examples of an underdog team beating more skilled opponents because of their higher level of motivation.
Persuasion is the means by which the coach of an underdog team inspires players to win.
He may lose some bets, anger impatient superiors, and vex overbur- dened co-workers, but he s still a sucker for the underdog.
For a long lime he has been the underdog and then he finds himself on top having people to order about and shout at.
When Bully Behavior (List A) Pushes Your Hot Buttons Bullies must reign supreme and hence engage in a top dog underdog approach.
And, unlike in the Rocky movies, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights Part 2 that became law on July 30, 1996, and Part 3, which came about when the IRS was over- hauled in 1998, don t see to it that the underdog always wins.
His ghting underdog role surely enhanced his personal appeal.
Jews became more sensitive to cries of in- justice, more ready for alliances with other underdogs.
He has brought attention to the legitimate complaints of racial minorities in the corporate world and has championed the underdog with astounding energy.
4 defend, protect, guard; support, back, stand up for, fight for, maintain, sustain, uphold; espouse, forward, promote, advocate: He has always championed the cause of the underdog.
2 contest, match, meet, game, tournament, event; championship: We entered the competition as underdogs.
2 innate, intuitive, inherent, private, secret, suppressed, hidden, unexpressed, undeclared, unvoiced, unavowed, unconfessed, unrevealed, unadmitted, undivulged, undisclosed, covert: I have a sneaking sympathy with the underdog.
He has always been a solid defender of the underdog.
underdog n.
loser, scapegoat, victim; vanquished, defenceless; Colloq fall guy, little fellow or guy: It has always been our policy to fight for the underdog.
In 1946 Fortas cofounded a Washington law firm whose corporate clients made him rich and influential, but he contributed his time to defending the rights of underdogs and alleged security risks.
McKeldin as a champion of the underdog, Sobeloff reflected in his judicial opinions a consistent concern both for meticulous DUE PROCESS and for the rights of minorities, the underprivileged, the dissenter, and the prisoner.
His protagonists are often underdogs, such as rural farmers and women, who have no real power or influence but who, in the world of the play, realize fantastic dreams.
Her stories typically portray the lives of the underdogs struggling in prewar and postwar Japan.
Those hands put you at about a 3:1 underdog.
If Darren has pocket Queens you re a 9:1 underdog.
If he has Aces or Kings you re about a 6:1 underdog.
Most players are more likely to play a hand that contains a T than a 6, so your opponents would usually be a major underdog to have caught trip 6's, but it is still possible.
But if it is not the best hand, it is in danger of being a big underdog to the likes of AK, KK and TT.
So when another player calls or raises, the player with ATo is looking at a situation where he is usually a small favorite or a big underdog.
It is unclear exactly what hand he has, you may be the favorite or you could be the underdog.
Your hand has a chance to win a showdown on the River The reason this factor is important is because you do not want to be putting in any extra bets if you are an underdog and your opponent is likely to call.
If he is ahead, you win a hand that you were an underdog to win.
Against AA, KK, QQ, your hand of JJ is a major underdog.
Also, hands like KJ and QJ (hands that the player on the button would raise, but would not if he was in early position) are favorites over T9s, but are slight underdogs to ATo.
25 The table shows that you should check when you are the underdog and your opponent is passive.
The tradeoff between that unlikely event and getting your opponent to risk his remaining chips when he is a major underdog should make you lean towards checking on the Flop.
Suck Out To win a hand with a hand that was a heavy underdog.
Although it s true that no single starting hand is that big of an underdog in hold em, it doesn t mean that weak starting hands can consistently be played profitably, even by the best players in the world.
Even if we get lucky and the raiser has JJ, TT, 99, or 88, we are at best a 7% underdog.
Counting five outs (not including runner-runner backdoor draws), the preflop raiser is a 42:5 underdog, or about 8.
Once more, many opponents will count all six of their outs, figuring they are only a 41:6 ~ 7:1 underdog.
**Note: The big blind is a significant underdog on the turn if a blank hits, so the big blind wants the button to lay down the AKo.
The big blind is a significant underdog, with 5 outs for two pair or runner-runner clubs for the flush.
Even though you are "ahead" against two of his three combinations, you are actually an underdog in the hand because he has more outs to catch up if he's behind than you have to catch up if you are behind.
Of course, you can't win money making point of view the only criterion for playing is money without winning pots, but attempting to win every pot or whether you're a favorite in the game or an underdog.
it; if you're an underdog, then it's a bad game which you should You may occasionally be in a game where the best strategy is to quit.
underdog, you should quit whether you're a winner or loser.
Why don't I and is only about a 5-to-1 underdog to make a flush, it is correct want my opponent to call as long as his pair of kings is worse than for him to call because a call has positive expectation.
Thus, it is frequently correct to would be rooting for your opponent with the four-flush to call play a strong hand weakly on an early round the converse of your $10 bet because he is a 5-to-1 underdog getting only 3-to-1 your plays in the previous two examples so that your opponent for his money.
As the ante increases, you raise with a good hand rather than average much worse than the mediocre player's, and even a world try to slowplay it because a large ante makes it likely your champion with a pair of kings is an underdog against a nobody opponents are getting their proper odds when you do not with a pair of aces.
For instance, a four-flush straight requiring two perfect cards at the end) or a back-door against three-of-a-kind in seven-card stud is a much greater flush draw along with a pair may be enough to change a fold to a underdog than a four-flush against two pair because three- call.
To see how much effect these extra outs have, let's say we The ability to fold correctly when you suspect you are drawing assess our hand as a 7-to-l underdog.
Returning from percentages to odds, we see that the extra hand, taking into account the possibility of an opponent's making out has dropped us from a 7-to-1 underdog to a 43/4-to-1 underdog.
As a 5-to-1 underdog you are going to make your hand one-sixth of the time, which is 16% percent.
Let's say you are you are getting on this next-to-last round of betting, a 5-to-1 underdog to make your hand, and you are getting 7-to-l taking into account the possibility of a raise behind you if from the pot.
3 It means you'll hit a flush once in 25 tries on average, decide you're going to see a hand that needs improvement all the making you a 24-to-1 underdog.
The reason is that when you bet in a limit game and the pot is large, your opponent's hand, though second best, is rarely so much of an underdog that he is not getting good enough odds to chase you.
If your raise succeeds only in cutting down the your opponent a 5-to-1 underdog, betting the maximum $150 number of opponents, that's still pretty good.
Your underdog status is more than compensated by all that extra dead money in there.
To try to win but you are quite sure it is second-best and not much of an it right away, you should bet and raise as much as possible, underdog.
As a 5-to-1 underdog, he should call.
If your opponent is a 9-to-1 underdog, getting 6-to-1 odds, When you have a chance to bet and you have a decent hand, you should still bet.
Your opponent is at least a 10-to-l underdog to a medium-sized pot.
are more of an underdog if your opponent has the hand he is If your opponent could see your cards, his correct play would be representing.
In general, when there is a have estimated that you are a 7-to-3 underdog.
If you have a hand that warrants a call when your opponent incorrect to put more money in the pot on a hand you know to be bets, it is usually correct to bet yourself, particularly in first the underdog.
half the time when you're a slight favorite and virtually all of the The problem is that your pair of 9s is no favorite over a four-flush time when you're a big underdog.
You should not say to yourself, "This may be be too much of an underdog.
So you can only call the raise since you're the underdog.
your kings, you're not that much of an underdog.
You win $30 more than underdog.
To repeat, a 9-to-1 underdog and is now getting only 61/2-to-1 from the pot, when you raise to drive people out, you are actually raising to cut you have made it correct for the two pair to fold.
against a possible semi-bluff is so much better than calling (except However, when you don't want to try this play, calling cannot be in the three situations described at the end of the last chapter) that profitable because you are too big an underdog.
Paradoxically a small underdog.
However, if you make jacks up, you should check rather than bet for value since you are a big underdog if you bet and get called.
That means that of the 42 cards remaining in the deck, I have 18 winners (4 fives, 4 sixes, 4 Using Game Theory to Bluff sevens, 3 eights, and 3 nines) and 24 losers, which makes me a 24-to-18 or 4-to-3 underdog.
If my occasional random bluffing has swung a hand that is a 24- I bluffed this infrequently, your proper play would still be to fold to-18 underdog into a 23-to-19 favorite.
But you That single bluff once out of 19 times has begun to close the gap will lose $200 to me the 18 times I have the best hand for a total between your status as a favorite and mine as an underdog.
odds you're getting are 3-to-1, you would be forced to call when If bluffing with one card makes me less of an underdog than I bet.
Bluffing exactly 6 times out of 24 has turned identical to the 2-to-l odds my opponent would be getting from a hand that was a 4-to-3 underdog when I didn't bluff at all into the pot.
become an underdog if you bet and get called.
First, with your underdog hand, you have not necessarily eliminated the determine what percentage of times your opponent will call if you option of raising.
Under no will call only with hands 75 and upward, you are clearly an circumstances, then, can it be correct to check and fold if you are underdog if you bet specifically a 4-to-1 underdog since you favored to win when your opponent calls you.
You must also know what In cases where you think you're the underdog if called, the hands your opponent will bet if you check.
Thus, you are a 20-to-15 underdog if your with.
Thus, if you check and call when As an underdog, you might think you should check.
By checking against such an opponent, you increase and are only a 2-to-l underdog, clearly you must call when your your chances of winning one last bet.
You Instead of going in as a 20-to-10 underdog, which you would be know your opponent will call with hands 65 and up (remember, doing if you checked, you're going in as a 20-to-15 underdog we are being completely hypothetical here for the purposes of since you'll still lose to 20 hands, but now you will beat 15 hands illustration), but he will bet only with hands 76 and up.
So the correct play is to bet because betting here you check with hand 80 and your opponent bets, you will be a makes you less of an underdog than checking.
Your hand is worth 20-to-4 or a 5-to-1 underdog.
You are still an underdog, but you are less of an when your opponent has hands 65-75 thus creating a situation underdog than if you had simply hit.
You in 100 times you will win $60 76 times when he has hands 0-75) bet as a 20-to-15 underdog only because you would have had to for a total of $4,560.
However if you bet you will win $60 65 call as a 20-to-10 underdog.
This works out are still a 20-to-15 underdog if you bet, you don't have to worry to $4,700 which is $140 more than you would have won by about calling.
You certainly though as an underdog you would not call if your opponent bet on don't want to bet as an underdog when you don't have to, so the the end, it may sometimes be right for you to bet, depending upon correct play in this instance is to check and fold if your opponent the size of the pot and the number of second-best hands you think bets.
fairly large and your opponent is somewhat timid, where it may Checking and folding has greater expectation than betting as a be correct to check and call even though your opponent would 20-to-15 underdog.
This is the A curious situation develops, though, when you are an exception we referred to earlier to the general rule that you should underdog when called and your opponent will bet if you check bet when your opponent will call with more hands than he would with only a few hands you can beat.
You know your opponent will own underdog hands even though, if you checked, you could not call only with hands 75 and up; so you're a 4-to-1 underdog if you call when your opponent bet.
/2-to-l underdog instead of the 20-to-5 or 4- expectation than betting.
And to repeat: The object of poker is not to-1 underdog you would be if you came out betting.
You know your opponent suspects you were drawing to you are an underdog you think your opponent will check some a flush or a straight, and you also know this player's a pay station, better hands behind you and if you fear a raise.
check and your opponent bets and you are an underdog if you bet Against the aggressive player, you would also check, but you and he calls, then the proper play is to check and fold if he bets.
Raise if your opponent will still be the underdog after If your hand figures to be a favorite when called but is not calling your raise.
If your hand is an underdog when called, you have three B.
If you are first to act and have a hand that is a small underdog them play hands in which you are not involved.
lead to costly mistakes later, either because you fold with the best At the end of a hand it becomes especially crucial to have a hand or because you stay in as a big underdog.
You are a small favorite if he does have ace, king, but you're a big If, for example, you know an opponent will raise you with underdog if he has two aces or two kings.
he has trips, you have the best hand and are the favorite to win the pot; if he has a pat hand, you have the second-best hand and are Analysis in Practice an underdog to win the pot.
Thus, 4/7 of the time your pair of hands if you bet on fourth street, and you want to win at least one queens is the favorite, and 3/7 of the time it is the underdog.
On the other hand, those three times out of seven when your opponent has two aces or two Unfortunately, the play that is likely to be right most of the kings, your two queens are a big 41/2-to-l underdog, meaning in time is not always the correct play.
When he does have an 8,7 low, you should not raise since you are a slight underdog and will probably get reraised.
Bad game: A game in which your opponents are too good for you to expect to win; a game in which you're an underdog.
(2) A big underdog.
(2) An underdog.
He is then the underdog.
5-t ' 1 underdog to make the draw with one card to come, and 62 successful in making your hand, you aren't going to are win any more money with it, anyway.
You don't know whether your opponent has A-K, but it is a likely hand for him to b6 70 Iding- He could have the A*K*, making you an underdog this hand.
"If I didn't figure the raiser to be holding a pair, the worst off I could have been was a 2-to-l underdog.
You're always taking the worst of it when you're taking a draw; you know that you're always the underdog when you call a bet to draw to your hand.
People are always talking about the fact that A-K is only an 11-to-10 underdog to a pair.
It isn't just the A-K that is the underdog: Any two overcards are only an 11-to-10 underdog to a pair.
Counting five outs (not including runner-runner backdoor draws), the preflop raiser is a 42:5 underdog, or about 8.
Once more, many opponents will count all six of their outs, figuring they are only a 41:6 ~ 7:1 underdog.
**Note: The big blind is a significant underdog on the turn if a blank hits, so the big blind wants the button to lay down the AKo.
The big blind is a significant underdog, with 5 outs for two pair or runner-runner clubs for the flush.
Even though you are "ahead" against two of his three combinations, you are actually an underdog in the hand because he has more outs to catch up if he's behind than you have to catch up if you are behind.
For instance, if your "main hand" is a 5-to-1 underdog to improve but you also have an 11-to-1 chance of making a different hand (as you might with both a three-card straight and flush draw), what do you think this would bring your chances down to?
1/1 underdog for it not to happen.
He would be an underdog to hit the hand, but one side of your straight draw does complete his hand.
And since there are very few hands that would be worse than an 11 to 1 underdog to win, it s basically an automatic call no matter what you are holding.
5 to 1 underdog.
5 to 1 underdog to hit your straight.
That would make you a 22 to 1 underdog!
75 to 1 underdog.
The low half is already gone and you are an underdog to get the high half.
18 to 1 underdog.
And you were an underdog to get that.
In razz you can go from an underdog to a huge favorite, depending on the other cards that are out.
However, since you have two of them, he has only seven hearts to draw to, making him a much bigger underdog to make it.
In the worst case scenario, you ll get two bets in as either a significant underdog or drawing dead, while your opponent is drawing smoother than you to begin with.
If he does raise, you ve now lost an extra bet and are probably an underdog to win the pot.
By investing one more bet, you may either win the pot right there or go from an underdog to a sizeable favorite.
Even 2-3-4 is an underdog to beat K-Q-J-10-8!
If you call and draw, you would be an underdog to any hand, so what about raising and staying pat?
They are forced to race for their chips before they are ready, so they are decided underdogs to the big stacks, who can better control their destinies.
I go ahead and get all my money in the pot, if it s a reasonable amount, knowing I probably have the worst hand and am the underdog to win the pot.
You re not looking to play a big pot if there s only a small chance you ll have the best of it or one where you re a big underdog.
At that point, I d know that if I got called I d probably be a slight underdog to a pair.
If you re up against two aces or two kings with a pair of queens, you re about a 4 to 1 underdog.
BIG DOG A big underdog to win the pot.
DOG Abbreviation for underdog the opposite of favorite.
Bad Beat To have a hand that is a large underdog beat a heavily favored hand.
For instance, if you flop four cards to your flush, you are not quite a 2:1 underdog to make your flush by the river (that is, you will make your flush about one in three times).
75 to 1 underdog.
Of course, it could have been worse for me John D'Agostino against other holdings, but even the worst case for me would have been to be November 7, 2005 up against K-T (a made straight), and then I would have been only a 3 to 1 underdog.
That is, they sometimes find themselves betting with hands that are underdogs to win.
You d be getting 4:1 on your Commercials Limits money when you re only a 2:1 underdog a clear win for you.
You never want to commit all your chips when you re either a small favorite or a big underdog.
Against other hands my opponent could have Check-Raising on Draws held, like pocket 10s or Jacks, it's a slight underdog.
This is correct even if you are an underdog when he calls, as long as you were going to call his bet anyway, or when folding would be a close decision if you check and he bets.
) So it is better to bet here, even if you think you are a slight underdog ifyou are called, rather than to check and call as an even bigger underdog.
Finally, you should check and fold when you are a definite underdog, think a bluffwould be unprofitable, and do not think the probability that your opponent is bluffing warrants a call.
What if you are an underdog when he calls?
When you are a definite underdog, think a bluff would be unprofitable, and do not think the probability that your opponent is bluffing warrants a call.
For instance, if a player can catch nine cards to make his hand, he knows he is a 38- to-9 underdog on the next round, assuming 47 unseen cards.
Bad game: A game in which your opponents are too good for you to expect to win; a game in which you're an underdog.
Most players are more likely to play a hand that contains a T than a 6, so your opponents would usually be a major underdog to have caught trip 6's, but it is still possible.
But if it is not the best hand, it is in danger of being a big underdog to the likes of AK, KK and TT.
So when another player calls or raises, the player with ATo is looking at a situation where he is usually a small favorite or a big underdog.
It is unclear exactly what hand he has, you may be the favorite or you could be the underdog.
Your hand has a chance to win a showdown on the River The reason this factor is important is because you do not want to be putting in any extra bets if you are an underdog and your opponent is likely to call.
If he is ahead, you win a hand that you were an underdog to win.
Against AA, KK, QQ, your hand of JJ is a major underdog.
Also, hands like KJ and QJ (hands that the player on the button would raise, but would not if he was in early position) are favorites over T9s, but are slight underdogs to ATo.
25 The table shows that you should check when you are the underdog and your opponent is passive.
The tradeoff between that unlikely event and getting your opponent to risk his remaining chips when he is a major underdog should make you lean towards checking on the Flop.
Bad Beat To have a hand that is the clear mathematical favourite lose to a heavy underdog (especially if that hand should not have been involved in the pot).
Suck Out To win a hand with a hand that was a heavy underdog.
He is then the underdog.
We struggle like we re an underdog.
Kipling reflects sympathy for the underdog and his ethnic references are perhaps not wilfully malicious.
I was personally grateful to know that Americans still retained their famed ironic humor, sharp intelligence, and feeling for the underdog.
55 But the deadlock could be broken in certain situations, such as trials or executions, which would have stimulated sympathy for the underdog at their most inequitable.
Catholics had an underdog s interest in exploiting oral methods of communication, methods which were versatile, labile and difficult to censor.
The university is for the underdog, and it sees gays that way.
But in a sense we re the underdog.
While there is still some impulse to cheer on the underdog, and with the possible exception of Cubs fans, there is little survival in these sports of Jesus admonition that the last shall be first.
If we wish to see these needs directly and clearly we must turn to neurotic or near-neurotic individuals, and to the economic and social underdogs.
"Women often bear the aura of underdog.
[69c06t10v] Therefore when the battle is joined, [69c06t11v] The underdog will win.
Just because he is a boss, whatsoever he does looks bad, appears bad, because deep down you resent that you are an underdog and somebody is a topdog.
You resent the fact of being an underdog, so whatsoever is said looks bad, but you cannot react; it will be too costly.
It is creating a division in yourself -- the division of the topdog and the underdog, the division of the superior and the inferior, the division of the saint and the sinner, the division of good and bad the division, basically, of God and devil.
You create a topdog and an underdog, and so there is conflict.
I mean, Bagman continued, lowering his voice still further, you re the underdog here, Harry Anything I can do to help No, said Harry so quickly he knew he had sounded rude, no - I - I know what I m going to do, thanks.
They had no conception of the temptations of the underdog.
They had no conception of the temptations of the underdog.