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Word: upset (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than the last. The key to any undefeated season is not to think about it. Take each game as it comes and play your best football. For the Harvard eleven this was easy. Each Saturday they were faced with a challenge, and no defeat could have been considered an upset...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: And Then We Won; Big Hole Was Dead | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...tube rack, but there was nothing he could do about it. He watched as the rack and eighteen test tubes of proteins went into the air and hit the floor. It had seemed so inevitable, even if only for an instant, that he wondered why the girl was all upset. She was almost hysterical...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...leaving for Greenland tomorrow and I want to spend the night with him, and I'm not lying at all," but by now Martin couldn't care less, and he said so, for the earthworm was in the receiver now and they were ready to go. But Betty was upset, and she said, "Look, Martin, I could have lied to you and told you I was stuck in the snow, or that it was my dog's birthday, but I'm telling the truth!" Martin barely heard her; the pleasure was intolerable. He screamed into the phone, "LOOK, BETTY...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

Sargent Kennedy, secretary to the Corporation, said the Fellows were not upset by this demonstration. "Any distinguished man," Kennedy said, "is bound to have some opposition...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: The Fellows Beef Up Their Party By Doling Out the Honoraries | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...scoring this spring. The fellow he edged for the scoring total last year, Mark Webster, scored 16 points in his final two games to go right by Princeton's Pete Johnsen and Ince with a final total of 31 compared to Ince's 27. But I'm probably more upset about it than he is. I told him last week that Webster needed six points to tie him, and Webster had one game left. Ince shrugged his shoulders and told me not to bother getting excited about it, in other words, "Who cares?" Cornell showed no mercy on Dartmouth, crushing...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

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