Word: applecarts
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Trapp: I really rattled that applecart and caused a lot of damage within the movement by retiring. I'm sure there's a contract out on me. Usually what happens is, the word gets passed around among the skinheads. They're the ones to worry about, because they're the ones who do all the dirty deeds. The skinheads around town know me, and I am not afraid of them...
...jobs is their No. 1 priority," says Sinclair Choy, a marine engineer from Hong Kong, who in partnership with a coastal town on the mainland runs a fishing boat-repair business. "Order, stability, calm," says Choy. "That's what these Chinese officials want. Anything that threatens to upset the applecart sets them...
...that too hearty a response might be considered meddling that could unbalance the delicate experiment. "We would encourage a non-Communist government in the process of pluralism, of course," said presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. But George Bush "would not want to do anything or say anything to upset the applecart...
...said fine, but next year when we start fresh, we're going to upset the applecart, and we're going to insist on Cambridge's inclusion," Barrett said...
...returned to New York City after the family tried farming in upstate New York. "I noticed how fragile people are. I saw how the human animal has to limit himself to live in our society-how he has to tie up any feelings he has that might upset the applecart...