Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confrontation between last year's national champion, Harvard's Kenton Jernigan, and Williams' All-American Greg Zaff. Zaff defeated Jernigan in a tournament last month, setting up the showdown in Williamstown. Jernigan, playing in his first match for the Crimson after a semester's absence, avenged last month's upset with a straight-set victory...
Simply because he remains ahead of the pack, the press is likely to become tougher on Mondale. The reservations about him are in part professional prudence: front runners often fade, as Ed Muskie and Ted Kennedy did; a candidate setting too bland a course can be upset, as Thomas Dewey was. Some of the press's tone, however, makes Mondale seem like a wimp, which...
...Paul Tsongas, 42, earnest, fiscally moderate Democratic Senator from Massachusetts; with lymph-node cancer; in Boston. Tsongas said that because of his ailment he would not seek a second term in November. Tsongas upset liberals in 1979 by endorsing a federal bailout for Chrysler. Said he: "What I've done is show you can be a liberal Democrat and still care about economics, that profit is not a dirty word...
...last stay at Yale-New Haven Hospital, when her ordeal with CF had been compounded by arthritis, pneumonia and collapsing lungs, Alex said to a nurse, "I'm going home to die now, but don't you tell my Mommy or Daddy because it'll upset them...
...held up, and an upset seemed possible, thanks largely to a stellar middle period on the part of Blair. First he was lucky--when defenseman Jim Chisolm's slapshot hit the post flush at the 13:45 mark. Then he was good, frustrating Chisolm twice more-doing a split to the left to stop one slapper and block a rebound attempt, and stopping another drive with a crowd around...