Word: upset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norstad was now upset by another De Gaulle strategy-his refusal to permit stockpiling of U.S. nuclear bombs in France unless the French government has control of them. Pointedly, Norstad let it be known that he was thinking of transferring nine squadrons of U.S. F-100 and F-1O1 fighter-bombers out of France...
Imperative Demand. Two years ago, McNeill upset some 50 members of his influential, 1,200-member First Presbyterian Church by writing a magazine article calling for "creative contact" between whites and Negroes in the South-"representation of both groups on city councils, grand juries, school boards, medical societies, ministerial associations and other public agencies." Fortnight ago, he wrote a note in the church bulletin urging parishioners to read without prejudgment an article by a Columbus newspaperman saying how much better the racial situation had become in Columbus...
...next year had all but vanished. At a Corning press conference, he carefully refrained from disavowing a group of Republican Congressmen, led by New York's Stuyvesant Wainwright, who had announced their intention to enter his name in New Hampshire's early-bird presidential primary. Was he upset by the plan? "Well." said Nelson Rockefeller, "I was upset about a lot of things in the beginning-but I've got used to them now." Reminded that once he is entered in New Hampshire, he must either run or positively forbid the use of his name, Rockefeller replied...
...into two 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...
Once the trustees have taken a vote, the job of buying or selling stock is turned over to longtime Market Trader Almore Thompson, who works through more than 200 brokerage houses. In order not to upset the market in a stock that has captured M.I.T.'s interest, Thompson often executes orders over a period of several weeks or disperses them widely. M.I.T. never puts more than 5% of its assets into one company, or more than 25% into one industry. Since it buys for the long pull, it is not bothered by short-term fluctuations. "When the market turns...