Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What they want from us more than anything else is encouragement," he said of the general political situation there. "They had the corrupt, warlords out and a reform program well under way when the Japanese invasion came along and upset everything...
...some 48 murders, practically all of them black-sedan-and-submachine-gun jobs in South Chicago style. Most seemed to be political, the vengeance of hot-headed young terrorists exploding against officials of the Batista regime now that the dictator was out, the war over and the country economically upset. When assassins shot an ex-police chief as he read the paper one evening on his front porch, they left behind the sign of the Union of Revolutionaries: "Justice comes late, but it comes...
Mountains of Them. Most upset by this phenomenon was Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson. At a "famine luncheon" for foreign relief in Washington last week he lamented: "There are mountains of [potatoes]. The Department has one man in a top executive job who can do nothing but buy them. We set a goal for 1946 of 378,000,000 bushels. It looks now as though the crop will be 445,000,000 bushels. How's that for a test of the ability of the Department to control production...
...most of them want to go to Palestine. Wretched Arab Fellahin, the peasant workers, have angrily watched their landlords sell Arab lands to the Jews at inflated prices. This meant even fewer poor acres for the impoverished Arabs. The Arab landlords and princes have angrily watched the Jews upset Palestine's traditional feudal ways. In the upsurge of Arab nationalism, Palestine's Arabs have wondered why they, alone of Arab peoples, should be denied even the semblance of independence. The tide of Arab nationalism, sweeping in from the desert, met the tide of Jewish immigration sweeping in from...
Brady, officially number two singles player for Coach Bob Ashley's Varsity netman this summer, advanced to the final round by virtue of a minor upset of Lane McGovern in a hectic three-set struggle, 4-6, 11-9, 6-3. At one time in the long second set McGovern was at match point, but Brady fought off the threat and subdued his higher-seeded rival...