Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running game is weak, and the defense is weaker. The defensive line is inexperienced. The offense is good enough to provide a few upset victories, but without major improvements in the defense, Columbia will be out of the running by the end of the fall...
...sports car leaned out her window to ask Charlie how to get on the F.D.R. Drive, and he cheerfully gave directions, wondering whether she would have hailed him if she had known his cargo. Once, the truck broke down, and the tow truck driver the city sent got terribly upset when he learned what he was hauling. "People have a hard time when it comes to bodies," Charlie observed...
Imagine one of his myriad challengers actually kayoing Joe Louis in his prime, or a 20-game loser burning the ball past the lordly New York Yankees of the Babe Ruth era. For the sailing cognoscenti along the gilt-edged waterfront of Newport, R.I., an upset of such proportions is a very real possibility. Not in anything so plebeian as boxing or baseball, to be sure, but in the patrician world of yachting, where, over the din of clinking champagne glasses, the chitchat is about fears that the longest winning streak in sports is about to end. After 132 years...
Conner's cranberry-red Liberty, the favorite, is currently at the top of the heap in the skirmishing among three U.S. boats for the honor of defending the Cup. The other two: Tom Blackaller's Defender followed by John Kolius' nine-year-old Courageous, which nonetheless upset Liberty and Defender six times last week and was still in the running. Though the challenger is picked strictly on results, the choice of the American boat is entirely up to the blue-blazered gentlemen of the New York Yacht Club's race committee. If they believe a yacht...
...December deadline draws closer, the Kremlin has been bearing down on two threats that lately have been sounding less like bluffs and more like promises: if deployment goes ahead on schedule, there will be 1) Soviet "military countermeasures" that would further upset the East-West balance, thus presumably requiring counter-countermeasures on the part of the West; and 2) a Soviet walkout from both the INF and strategic arms reduction talks (START) in Geneva...