Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is fresh off a thrilling 3-1 upset victory over fifth-ranked Boston College on Wednesday. "We've got the momentum going," said senior Inga Larson, who heads a tight Crimson defense that has allowed only three goals all year...
...senior left wing, mired in a scoring slump, broke our with a hat trick and led the 14th-ranked Crimson (now 7-1-1) to its biggest upset of the year, a 3-1 thrashing of fifth-ranked Boston College...
Disappointing, that is, only because the Crimson was ranked 14th last week as well. "When you play three great games like we did last week you do get a little upset," Harvard Coach Bob Scalise said of his squad's failure to move up in the rankings...
...visual equivalent of watching a Mondale press conference, and one reason is clear. After dwelling for two months on Mondale's missteps and Reagan's opportunistic new patriotism, the fourth estate is bored. The press (us included doesn't want 25 point landslides, but the potential for an upset, and Mondale's performance provided just such an opening; he was amply rewarded with the most glowing coverage of the campaign thus...
...they appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to support a sudden new request for security funds at U.S. embassies around the world. Democratic Congressmen accused the Administration of belatedly seeking the money as an attempt to shift blame for the lax security in Beirut to Congress. They were upset too by Under Secretary of State Ronald Spiers' contention that the $366 million sought by the department was not really needed and that $110 million was all that could be spent this year. Committee Chairman Dante Fascell, a Florida Democrat, called this reasoning "stupid," and his committee voted...