Word: upset
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...course, Nixon knows that Agnew is not perfect. The President privately admitted that he thought Agnew had used "clumsy language" in some of his speeches. Nixon is described as "mildly upset" with the Vice President for his address on Oct. 19 in New Orleans, in which Agnew called the Moratorium supporters an "effete corps of impudent snobs." But it was a mild pique, and Nixon went out of his way last week to praise Agnew publicly. Assessing Agnew's performance in office when they both appeared at a Republican National Committee conference, Nixon declared: "He's done...
...most ambitious Legal Services programs: the California Rural Legal Assistance project. In three years, CRLA lawyers have won 85% of more than 35,000 cases. Their success has nourished a greater respect for law among the state's rural poor, especially Mexican Americans. In 1967, the agency upset Governor Ronald Reagan when it won a suit to prevent him from cutting benefits for almost 1,500,000 people in the state's medical-assistance program. Reagan threatened to veto CRLA's aDoropriation but reportedly did not do so because OEO Director Sargent Shriver was prepared to override...
Nick Alexandridis, the league scoring champion the last two years, tallied on a direct free kick in the third quarter to boost Cornell past Columbia, 1-0, in an upset at Ithaca...
...contrast to the Harvard-Dartmouth game last week, the Indians got off to a slow start against Yale in New Haven, trailing, 7-0, then 14-7. Some spectators were probably even convinced that the Elis were on their way to a sure upset and another league title...
...harriers are woefully lacking in depth, and on two occasions when Fields won meets, his teammates were unable to supply enough strength to keep Yale from losing. The Bulldogs have dropped five-of-six meets, and the feeling at Now Haven is that it will be an upset if Yale can defeat Princeton, much less Harvard...