Word: upset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous uproar over a marijuana bust in the high school early this year had already upset the townspeople. They are increasingly convinced that their children are being corrupted in the high school, and they do not know what to do about...
...last game of the season, Army lost in an upset to give the Crimson sole possesion of first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League after a tie for fourth the year before. The squad did not have an especially great year, but three of its four losses came in nonleague games with Boston schools...
...NCAA, however, that came through, shifting the playoff schedule to allow the Crimson to participate. Harvard won in something of an upset. May be it can happen again...
...first, the world war did not leave the nation bereft of more personal social issues. On the last day of October, Harvard upset Princeton, a school Cambridge men scorned because it still refused to admit Negroes, by a 19-14 score. During the game Boston police confiscated all issues of the Massachusetts Free Press, which Harvard students were distributing outside the Stadium. The Press supported the impending state referendum legalizing the dispensation of birth control information by doctors. Boston's finest ended the effort because, as they explained, "someone would have to come and pick up all the pamphlets that...
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy appeared early this morning to have won an upset victory in the Oregon Democratic Primary, energizing his own troubled campaign and dealing a major blow to the Presidential hopes of Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48, his opponent...