Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That's straightened entirely out," he exclaimed with enthusiasm. A newshawk asked whether the Ickes plans would not depress real estate values and upset the Moffett scheme. Hastily Roosevelt Secretary Marvin Mclntyre interposed: "Mr. Moffett has only five minutes. Let's not ask him about controversial matters of policy...
...Because a rook upset his milk pail, St. Kevin condemned all rooks to be "sad, cawing and having the law of one another for very dismalness." But St. Kevin was far from cruel. When a blackbird laid an egg in his hand, he held it steady until it hatched...
...steel-helmeters,' and the National-socialists, although not officially armed, are known to have revolvers and rifles on hand, and so delicately is the economic situation in Germany balanced that any serious outburst or uprising of the members of these armies at any point in the country, would upset and paralyze the whole economic system of Germany...
...doubt the highly sensitive Democratic ego, unused to power and position, would pull a fit of hysteria at even a hint that the chief of the clan was not perfect, but others of ordinary sanity are not upset when facts are mentioned...
Belgium. Tall, curly-haired young King Leopold III faced the first grave crisis of his reign last week when the Catholic-Liberal Coalition Cabinet of patrician old Premier Count Charles de Broqueville was upset by that fiery anti-inflationist and anti-devaluationist Finance Minister Gustave...