Word: upset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What is all this about Scotland's winning "temporary independence" at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314 [July 19]? Millions of Scots are under the impression that they still have this independence, though it must be admitted that some are a bit upset about the consequences of the Act of Union, the voluntary coming together of the Scottish and English parliaments...
Cioffi's performance compares favorably with the fine one given by Philip Bosco in the Festival's 1962 production of the play. It is not Cioffi's fault that the balance between Richard and Bolingbroke is upset, and that aspects of the latter's character are missing; for director Kahn has trimmed the text to three acts of 45 minutes each, and in the process omitted the entire Aumerle conspiracy with Boling-broke's attendant clemency...
Johnson was particularly upset by the bill's Title III, authorizing local and state police wiretapping and electronic surveillance under a court order. Calling on Congress to "immediately reconsider" the provision, he warned that it could lead to "a nation of snoopers bending through the keyholes of the homes and offices of America, spying on our neighbors. No conversation in the sanctity of the bedroom would be free from eavesdropping...
...Russia obviously considers De Gaulle an ally in its European policy, so much so that even his recent fulminations against Communism in France do not bother Zhukov in the slightest. "That's election talk," he says. Nor does he think much of the student radicals who have lately upset De Gaulle. Comparing Rebel Leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit with Leftist Guru Herbert Marcuse of the University of California, Zhukov said: "Cohn-Bendit is a flea and Marcuse an elephant, although I strongly criticize his ideas...
Most Extraordinary. Politicians and intellectuals, insisting that the new constitution automatically does away with martial law, were upset by Praphas' announcement. Said the Bangkok newspaper Siam Rath: "Thailand would be a most extraordinary country if we were to maintain this double standard." Then, in an event both startling and significant for a country in political hibernation for a decade, Thai university students took to the streets for their first political-protest demonstration in eleven years-initially against martial law, then against a bus-fare hike and high rice and pork prices. Ignoring the warnings of police, several thousand marched...