Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main focus is on Penn," Harvard Tri-Captain Kate Felsen said, "but it's always great to upset a team like UConn. The key is to score early and set the pace of the game...
Sophomore Ken Hao upset the number-one seed, Brown's Steve Ryu, 6-2, 7-6 in the quarterfinals, and he advanced to the finals with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Yale's Dave Keldgord. Hao lost a heartbreaking, 6-3, 6-3 match to Brown's Mariariu in the finals. Paul Palandjian suffered a surprising loss in the quarterfinals...
...Miami to report the arrival of Pope John Paul II, Rather became upset after learning that the network's coverage of the U.S. Open tennis tournament might cut into that night's 6:30 newscast. He called CBS News President Howard Stringer and told him that if the Evening News did not begin on schedule, CBS Sports should fill the remaining time until the second, and final, edition of the news began at 7. When the semifinal match between Steffi Graf and Lori McNeil was still on the network at 6:30, Rather unclipped his microphone and left...
Even as Coke's management eased Puttnam out, he remained unrepentant: "Do I seem to have upset a great number of powerful people? Yes. It seems that I've done one terrible thing: reinvented the use of the word...
Robertson was on a roll last week. In the straw poll in Ames, he scored an upset that left the Iowa campaign of George Bush reeling. In Michigan, he easily won a procedural vote that solidified his lead in that state's convoluted delegate-selection process. And in Chesapeake, Va., he announced that he had collected the 3 million signatures he insisted were necessary to persuade him to run for the presidency. Having grossed $10 million in contributions, Robertson is no longer just a fringe factor. Republicans now must ask, What does Robertson really represent...