Word: upset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People then were more upset at Harvard-Radcliffe doing what the hell they pleased than with any construction confusion. It wasn't a town-gown issue," Riseman said...
What the Huskies found instead was a fired up squad of booters who, but for a pair of shots that hit posts, would have pulled a major upset. The Crimson's record falls...
...What upset the intelligence analysts was not that they had exposed some new and perfidious Soviet menace but that they had failed to notice a brigade that had been there for years. What upset the Carter Administration was not the intelligence failure but an acute political problem. Vance had inadvertently misled the Senate...
...Green frat houses served Kool-Aid last weekend, and Hanover flew the flags at half-staff all week. UNH is non-too-shabby though, and this Granite State supremacy battle should be a good one. My friend at the College Fund, Peter Clifton, predicts a Wildcat upset. And how could a man always around so much money go wrong? UNH 17, Dartmouth...
...network in the industry with pop hits like Mork & Mindy, last week sprang a surprise bid to acquire Macmillan, Inc., the old-line publishing conglomerate that brought out Richard Bach's 1970 bestseller about a mythical seagull. In doing so, the big broadcaster (1978 revenues: $1.8 billion) upset merger talks that had been going on between Macmillan and Mattel, Inc., the California-based toymaker that grew big on sales of Barbie dolls but which is still less than one-third ABC's size. ABC's offer of $335 million for a controlling 55% of Macmillan...