Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's first-round opponent is Cornell, a team that Harvard defeated in five sets earlier this month. The Big Red upset Princeton in five sets Saturday, giving the Tigers their first Ivy loss...
Tannenbaum was "upset" that the second victim had to wait more than five hours before seeing a doctor and being allowed to wash up. She said she hopes to see a "gynecologist on call" in the future...
...directive came not from the Haitian government but from Father Aristide's superiors in the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco, the 129-year- old religious order popularly known as the Salesians. Upset by Aristide's strident political activism, they commanded him to leave his homeland by the same date, Oct. 17, and to go into exile in Canada. Last week, as that date passed, it was clear that Aristide was not about to leave...
...sanctions aimed at South Africa, none have upset the white population more than the country's isolation from international sports events, especially rugby, the national sport. In a bid to return to global competition, two leaders of the white-administered South African Rugby Board last week struck an unprecedented deal with the anti-apartheid black Rugby Union and the outlawed African National Congress. The parties urged the formation of a single rugby association that could field an integrated team for foreign tournaments...
...Michael S. Dukakis called the dwindling days before the election a political "eternity" with enough time to pull off an upset, while Republican rival Vice President George Bush accused him yesterday of wanting to "torpedo the prosperity...