Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mondale's aides, the euphoria gave way almost immediately to a bout of Hart-induced nightmares. Back in February, the Colorado Senator's stunning upset in the New Hampshire primary (he had risen from a mere 3% following among Democrats nationally just a month earlier) shattered the notion that an invincible Mondale machine would crush all opposition early. After a string of Hart wins in New England, Mondale had doggedly fought his way back with victories in Alabama and Georgia on Super Tuesday I. Then he seized Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, setting up another knockout chance on Super Tuesday...
...with a clandestine Italian Masonic lodge called Propaganda Due, or P2. In breathless prose, the author surveys his lineup of suspects and their supposed motives. There was the late Jean Cardinal Villot, the Vatican Secretary of State, who Yallop claims had learned he would be replaced and who was upset that John Paul was allegedly considering loosening the church's prohibition on artificial birth control; Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican Bank, who is said to have been scheduled for immediate removal; Roberto Calvi, president of Banco Ambrosiano, who faced ruin if his trickery with Vatican funds...
...Wichita, Kans., sometimes regarded as the pope of the Presbyterians, was the odds-on favorite for the post of Stated Clerk (chief administrator). But on the fourth round of voting, Dark Horse James E. Andrews, 55, a droll, self-deprecating minister reared in Whittenburg, Texas, emerged in an astonishing upset as the man who will try to redirect the declining fortunes of the Presbyterian Church over the next four years...
...pipeline is probably working at close to its capacity, and the CIA is determined not to upset its delicate sys tem. For that reason, the agency has, in recent months, refused to increase the quality or quantity of U.S. aid to the Afghan rebels. Last month, however, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would make Pakistan one of five countries where more than six military advisers may be stationed...
...feeling of collective purpose, in the '60s groups within the University turned on each other. In the opinion of many, demagogery had proved to have a home on the left as well as the right. Pusey was perplexed. "I just didn't understand what was going on. I was upset that people within the University would think that it was a wicked sinful place," he said last week...