Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maine--All year long the Harvard baseball team came back to win the big games, like the 6-5, 11-inning thriller at Yale April 29. Down 6-3 after five innings of the first NCAA Northeast Regional game May 25, the Crimson rebounded to score a 10-8 upset over second-seeded Seton Hall...
...Jewish Advocate charged that Harvard's offer to Kollek would further antagonize a Jewish community upset about the University's refusal to change the date for the exercises...
...young Turks' tactics. In his pique, however, the Speaker failed to notify the Republicans of the change. For that he later apologized to Michel, but the firestorm had been ignited. Republicans labeled O'Neill's action "camscam," and took to the floor in high dudgeon. What upset the Democrats, as well as Michel, is that the Speaker, who is supposed to represent the House as a whole, had joined in a partisan shouting match. Lost in the scuffle was the laudable fact that O'Neill had improved the video link between Congress and its constituents...
...apparent from the results of "Super Tuesday II." Mondale did win solidly in North Carolina (36% to Gary Hart's 30% and Jesse Jackson's 25%) and Maryland (43% to Jackson's 27% and Hart's 25%). But Hart came back from the brink to upset Mondale twice, in the key Midwestern states of Ohio (42% to 40%) and Indiana (42% to 41%). "Welcome to the fourth quarter," Hart told a jubilant throng of his supporters at Washington's National Press Club. "The message is clear. The Democrats and the people of this country...
Meanwhile yesterday, the nation second-ranked Temple squad upset top-seeded Maryland, 6-4, in the NCAA championship game at Boston University's Nickerson Field. Delaware defeated the UMass squad that knocked Harvard out of the tourney in the consolation game that determined third place...