Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cornell's 76-67 upset win over Harvard before the biggest-ever crowd at Briggs Athletic Center (2850) left the Crimson with only faint hopes in its quest for that elusive Ivy title...
...associate mean if you can't even pick the people with whom you're going to share the intimate experience of downing a few kegs? At my sister's high school, they've had sororities, rush and selective membership for years. Now, of course, she's a little upset because she was black balled--but that's something you have to live with...
...master offered no bold foreign policy initiatives. He restated his nation's commitment to the principle of "peaceful coexistence" and railed against the "reckless, adventurist actions of imperialism's aggressive forces." The Soviet Union, he said, did not seek military superiority, but would not allow others to upset the strategic balance. In a passage that must have pleased the military establishment, he promised to "see to it that our country's defense capacity be strengthened, that we should have enough means to cool the hot heads of militant adventurists...
Chernenko visited Paris in 1982 to attend the 24th Congress of the French Communist Party. Afterward, he was given a rather grim reception by the French government, which was upset about the Soviet-inspired imposition of martial law in Poland only seven weeks earlier. But in Chernenko's talk with French Premier Pierre Mauroy, says a French official who attended the meeting, the Soviet visitor came across as "a man of conviction and even punch." At one point, Mauroy referred to "heaven" as he described the importance of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland. This remark elicited a flash...
...woman hurried down the counter to where five people waiting for tickets were looking at their watches. There was only one agent selling tickets and each customer was taking about five minutes. It was going to be tough for all of them to make the flight. Now visibly upset, the woman spilled out her story. She had gotten her ticket with plenty of time to spare and gone up to the departure area where there had been some confusion, and a lot of people milling about. She had been holding her ticket inside her passport, but when...