Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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February 15, 9:30 p.m.: Delaney Smith's post-Princeton prophecy is realized as word comes to the Palestra that Princeton has just upset Dartmouth, 69-67. The Big Green loss yet again lifts the Crimson back into the picture with only Cornell remaining on each squad's Ivy schedule...
...Crimson's number four Lucy Miller squeaked by Yale's Liz Solovay, in an upset. "They were tight games, and the victory was a great breakthrough for Lucy," Harvard Coach Priscilla Choate said...
...enters the final weekend of league competition in sole possession of first place because of Penn's Saturday night upset of second-place Brown...
...five-man team competition to a strong squad from Mexico, while in the men's singles open division, Co-Captain Kenton Jernigan, Harvard's number one player and a heavy favorite to win a record-tying fourth open championship in a row, was the victim of a stunning upset by Yale's Hugh LaBossier...
...spree of self-destruction sent a shock wave through the school, which was locally branded "Suicide High." Counselors reported that some students dreaded going to class, fearing that another classmate would be dead. "Some of the youngsters are terribly upset and can't seem to control themselves," observed Guidance Counselor Nancy Bednar. "It's a sense of 'Who will be next?' " Teachers urged students to take a pledge not to make "any big decisions . . . without taking a day to think it over." At a forum on the suicides, parents and others shouted down Psychiatrist John Florian Riedler with such comments...