Word: upset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifteen months after its upset victory over the United Bahamian Party, Pindling's Progressive Liberal Party was as close to being a sure thing as the next day's bright, sunny weather. When the votes were finally in, the Progressive Liberals-who had been struggling along with a one-vote majority in the Bahama's 38-seat House of Assembly-finished with 29 seats, compared with only seven for the United Bahamians. Besides giving Pindling a healthy majority, the vote also meant that once and for all he had buried the predominately white United Bahamians...
Wynne went down to his Tufts man when he failed to pick up a birdie on the 18th hole. He had fought back from a three hole deficit at the 15th hole. Purdy lost, 2-1, as his opponent birdied the last two holes to upset...
...upset by upper-class liberal intellectuals always jumping at efforts to subdue riots without asking what they would do in the face of sniping and rampant destruction," he said in an interview yesterday...
...crowd. We knew he'd turn out a crowd, and with a crowd the cops would have a hard time laying hands on us." One hundred strong, the Invaders infiltrated the marchers' flanks, planning to disperse in flying squads and riot on cue. Their strategy was upset only because teenagers boiled over even before the scheduled time...
...week's end there was dramatic evidence of how far that exploration has already gone. More than 1,000 students poured into the streets of Prague after dark to protest the choice of General Svoboda as President because of his past Soviet ties. Angry and upset, they marched to the Communist Party headquarters and shouted for Alexander Dubček to show himself. It was midnight. In the past, the students would either have been clubbed to the ground or, at the very best, ignored. This time, no one interfered with them. What was more, Debček quickly...