Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason Mayor Daley won every election he ever ran in--including six for mayor--was that he always made sure that he had enough votes to win, even if he had to buy them or stuff the ballot box. Mayor Washington won his amazing upset in 1983 because the white community was divided, and the Black community--unified around the cause of getting a Black mayor for the first time in Chicago's history--made sure he had enough of their votes...
Harvard put two more runs on the board and the upset was complete...
...Nunn bill would do more to upset equality of educational opportunity than anything since Plessy v. Ferguson. This is the issue for April...
When I told my mother I would be traveling to the Tambov region with an American, she got very upset. "Are you crazy?" she said. "Just think of where you are taking him. There's mud everywhere. You'll get bogged down on some road. There is nothing in the stores either...
Harvard's second team, scheduled to compete in Division III, was moved up to Division II because it upset Rutgers II in the preliminaries...