Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...observer: "He didn't cry, didn't pour out his feelings in soap-opera fashion." The jurors also seemed to be affected adversely by Gilbert's decision to put two bullets into his wife. "We gave him charity on the first shot," said Juror Rosalyn Brodsky. "He was upset and overcome psychologically. But it was the second bullet that did it. That was premeditated." Added Juror Susan Mason: "The law does not allow for sympathy. We had to do it." Not true, said Gilbert's lawyers, pointing out that the jury had the option of a second-degree murder...
Playing at the NCAA individual championships in Athens, Ga., the Crimson's first doubles team pulled a stunning first-round upset by outlasting USC's first doubles tandem of Rich Leach and Tim--the fourth seeded team in the tournament and finalists in last year's NCAA event...
...twice the rate found in 1975. A survey of 1,200 students in fraternities and sororities on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sketched a portrait of young people heavily dependent on booze to handle stress. More than half said they drink when angry or upset, three-quarters said they drink to get drunk, and 42% admitted they have trouble putting down the bottle once they start. Almost 30% had at least one accident or injury while drunk...
...cold arrogance and "was endearingly able to laugh at himself." Like other congenital optimists, Mountbatten seems to have had a vividly accurate memory for events as they should have happened, but, says Ziegler, "though the truth in his hands often suffered a sea-change, he was genuinely surprised and upset when instances of this were pointed...
Last week the Justice Department sued to upset two court decrees it had helped negotiate during the Carter Administration, which created numerical goals for the hiring and promotion of blacks and women in the Indianapolis police and fire departments. The decree is one of 50 the Justice Department now says must be modified in light of a 1984 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protects white workers with seniority from being laid off before more junior blacks hired under affirmative action plans. Despite several lower federal court rulings to the contrary, the Justice Department has insisted that the high court decision...