Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's the first time in my career that I ever saw a pitcher fire up the offense," muses Hernandez afterward. He refers to Gooden's pitching, not his hitting. "Oh, I love to hit," Gooden says. "When the Mets drafted me as a pitcher, I was upset. The Pirates had timed me running the bases, the Angels too. Why couldn't I be a hitter?" That cinches it. He's Babe Ruth...
Year in and year out, professors get upset not only about who gets or doesn't get the coveted sets of initials, but about who gets to choose and why. One of the most outspoken critics is Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who accuses the Corporation of "false advertising." He says the Corporation promotes the erroneous notion that the degrees come from Harvard as a whole...
...water, the Harvard lightweight crews got off to a blazing start, but the varsity couldn't top Princeton or Yale, in regular-season competition or at the Eastern Sprints in mid-May. The Crimson heavyweights rebounded from early-season losses to Brown and seemingly indomitable Navy with an upset victory in the Sprints. The triumph qualified the varsity heavies for national championship competition at Cincinnati in mid-June...
...publicity particularly upset the Chinese because of its timing. They will be hosts to the Asian Games in 1990, and are expected to make a bid to stage the Summer Olympics in the year...
...committed publishing "piracy" by quoting too liberally from a "purloined" copy of Gerald Ford's memoirs, A Time to Heal. But the majority opinion, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, was so narrowly drawn that even many of those who had sided with the Nation were not seriously upset. "There is always a natural tension between the First Amendment and copyright law," said Bruce Sanford, general counsel for the Society of Professional Journalists, "and this does not alter the balance very much...