Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guard Milt Wagner sank a 12-foot shot from the right baseline with five seconds left in the game to lift Louisville to a 69-67 upset victory over 12th-ranked Tulsa yesterday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Mideast Regional Tournament in Milwaukee...
Maine? Granted, another Hart upset. Granted, the union muscle did not amount to much. But Mondale's aides say he was catching up at the last minute...
...cathartic upset in New Hampshire seemed to liberate voters last week in nearby Maine (Hart over Mondale, 50% to 44%) and neighboring Vermont (Hart, 70% to 20%). That infectious sense of political possibility caught on and spread west and to the Deep South, where the contenders, variously giddy and panicked, prepared for this week's contests.* "The situation has changed totally," said Joan Bowen, Hart's coordinator in Alabama, where virtually no organization existed last month. "With a victory under his belt, people say, 'Hey, I like him!' They're coming out of the woodwork...
...Their continuing embarrassing bewilderment made many of them uneasy. "You can feel a terrible shaking of the earth," said New Republic Editor Hendrik Hertzberg, "as new conventional wisdom struggles to be born." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker observed that "the publicity that the press gave to the 'upset' of its own erroneous expectations" was responsible for Hart's sudden, starry prominence...
...father this fall either: "I don't like politics." Luckily for Reagan, who campaigned last week for a return to "traditional values," Patti's outspoken views did not receive wide coverage. But her modern ways have caused a stir in the White House. Nancy Reagan was especially upset after Patti came to visit last Christmas with her beau, a California yoga instructor...