Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...margin, thought the police, was close enough to try for an upset; they rushed election headquarters with a big batch of last-minute votes for Yolanda. But when they arrived, said the police, canny General Otero's troops had got there first, with arms instead of votes. His soldiers bluntly told the police that the polls were closed...
...year marks the second in which the circuit will be run on a ten-team setup, with both service academies and Brown back in the fold. The closest Harvard has come to winning a loop title was in 1936 when it shared honors with Dartmouth. This year it may upset the apple cart. You never can tell
...glorious note of triumph Saturday night in New Haven's riding academy, as they galloped from behind in the fourth and final chukker to defeat the Yale J.V. squad, 12 to 10. The poloists had to score five goals in the last minutes to pull out their upset...
...were Kentucky and St. Louis. Their meeting in the finals of the National Invitation Tournament in Madison Square Garden was to be the big climax of the season. Last week the big moment came, but neither Kentucky nor St. Louis was there to meet it. In the biggest double upset of the season they had been knocked out of the championship class...
Verdeur's record-breaking conquest Saturday overshadowed the upset victories registered by Dartmouth's Jock McIntyre in winning the 300-yard freestyle and Don DeForrest, Pennsylvania captain, in taking the 440-yard freestyle...