Word: upset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wynn, who died of throat cancer last week at 79, had been opening doors in a funny way ever since he was a kid in Philadelphia. Then he was Isaiah Ed win Leopold, who used to upset his mil liner father by putting on ladies' hats and mincing around the showroom like a prospective customer. At 16, he split his middle name in two and became Ed Wynn, and soon he was "The Boy with the Funny Hats" - a turn in which he twisted a trick fedora into 28 shapes...
...reward for his labors, the party offered Javits the nomination for Congress in the 21st District, an exceptionally HIerate, sophisticated?and Democratic?area which had attracted so many German-Jewish refugees from Hitler that part of it was nicknamed "the Fourth Reich." Espousing a resoundingly liberal line, Javits upset his closest competitor 46,897 to 40,652 in a three-way race...
...Hope You're Satisfied." At Forest Hills, early-round sets were 21-point affairs, and the two-point-margin rule was eliminated, causing Van Alen to complain: "They're not playing VASSS. It's not my system at all." He was nowhere nearly as upset as Pancho Gonzales was when Gonzales discovered that he was required to serve from the 3-ft. line-thereby taking the steam out of his serve, the hardest in the game. Gonzales blew his first-round match to Chilean Luis Ayala, 21-18, then blew his top. He challenged heckling spectators...
...grocery sales in the area. Two weeks ago, the court struck down a franchise system under which Brown Shoe Co. gave architectural plans, group-rate insurance, and sales aids to the 3% of U.S. shoe retailers who concentrated on selling its lines. In that decision, which could upset scores of franchising deals across the nation, Black held that the complaining FTC did not even need to show that the setup reduced competition...
...walking between the two cities, the pilgrims mobilized everything on wheels and carried passengers on fenders, hoods and rooftops. "If the government respects the rights of the Roman Catholic Church," Cardinal Wyszynski told a huge audience in Piekary, "then we will respect the government. But if the balance is upset, we do not take responsibility for the future...