Word: upset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly three years as New York City's mayor, John V. Lindsay has seemed to lead a charmed life. Taking office after an upset victory, he was immediately faced with a prolonged subway strike that might have broken almost anyone else. Fortunately for him, New Yorkers accepted it-as they tend to accept all man-made disasters-as well as a garbage strike that made the city's streets look like Saigon's. Nor were New Yorkers particularly troubled when some of Lindsay's aides began to desert him, or when scandals erupted that would have...
...well-precisioned West German crew, clocked at 6:07.00 for the 2000-meter Xochimilco course, captured the gold medal and upset pre-race favorite New Zealand (6:10.43), which eventually finished fourth...
...This upset smashed the United States' hopes for its first gold medal in the 1500-meter run in 60 years. It also destroyed his dream for a first gold medal that Ryun has nurtured for four years, since he competed in the 1964 Olympics as a high school senior...
Cottle added that he was upset about the apparent contradiction in asking the national government for funds for the radical-oriented course...
Harvard's football team faces its first real Ivy League test today, when Cornell, smarting from an upset loss at the hands of Penn last week, brings the Ivy League's best defense to Cambridge, to try containing the Crimson's prolific offense...