Word: applecarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinct groups: Blissful Indifference, and Ineffective Desperation. No one takes the latter group very seriously. In response to the conservative plea, most students assert simply that "you can't turn back the clock"; in reply to the radical demand, the majority insist that it is dangerous to "upset the applecart." This leaves the potent majority of the Center, the drifting "moderates...
...losers, it was an excellent performance even in defeat. The varsity was playing against a Princeton quintet that has been playing together for three years, a team composed entirely of seniors except for Jim Brangan. That they came so close to upsetting the Tiger applecart is a tribute to the varsity's courage, hustle, and determination
...Martin, Jim Schlaeppi, and Willie Thompson will make or break the race, according to Stowell. "Martin's as ready as he has ever been," said Stowell. "Schlaeppi has been bothered by foot trouble, but we're counting on him and on Thompson. And Mac Brown could easily upset the applecart...
Political Life. After World War II. as more and more of Morocco's independence leaders succeeded in shaking the French applecart, Mohammed became increasingly dangerous to French influence, was summarily exiled in 1953 to Corsica, then Madagascar (along with his wives, five children). After rebellion flared in Morocco, the French were forced to bring him back in 1955, to the song of triumph from his own people. Thereupon he set out on a program toward constitutional monarchy. Though still autocratic in his ways, he has inspired modernization of his people and the country, remained devoted to the West...
...Senator John Kennedy, an undeclared but unabashed candidate for his party's presidential nomination in 1960, accepted an invitation to speak to Mississippi Young Democrats at Jackson, in the deepest of the Deep South. But ever since Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus kicked over the Democratic civil rights applecart, Kennedy's Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern view he would necessarily offend his Southern supporters. Jack Kennedy disagreed...