Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Jackson's free throw with eight seconds to go gave second-ranked Georgetown a 37-36 victory over upset-minded Southern Methodist University yesterday in the second round of the NCAA West Regional basketball tournament in Pullman, Wash...
Reserve J. J. Crawl swiped a pass near midcourt and hit a driving layup with three seconds remaining as West Virginia upset 17th ranked Oregon State, 64-62, in the first round of the NCAA Mideast Regional basketball tournament last night in Birmingham...
...quite 28% for Mondale. Moreover, Hart swept nearly every category of voter; one exit poll found that only those aged 60 or over delivered the expected margins for Mondale. In the judgment of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Mondale backer, Hart has pulled off "probably the biggest upset in Democratic politics since [Eugene] McCarthy went up against Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire in 1968." Says puzzled Pollster Claibourne Darden, whose soundings failed to gauge the extent of the Hart surge in New Hampshire: "It's just the damnedest thing I ever...
...Walter Mondale's aura of invincibility was such that almost everybody forgot about New Hampshire's quirky politics and unusual demographics. The polls contained no hint of an upset in the making: only a week before the primary, an ABC-Washington Post poll showed Mondale first with 37% and Gary Hart third (behind John Glenn) with 13%. The Mondale campaign serenely cruised about the state in long motorcades, with scores of reporters and television crews in tow. Hart bounced around in vans, with few reporters and fewer TV cameras in sight. As he wandered into coffee shops, Hart...
Darman is unusually sensitive to anything that might be perceived as a slight within the pecking order. An aide recalls that Darman became seriously upset when his name was omitted from the official manifest at the funeral of Nancy Reagan's father in Arizona in 1982. His brilliance and ambition are often translated into a scorching impatience with underlings who are inefficient or who he feels are mediocre...