Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sugar Ray Leonard returned to the ring in spectacular fashion after a three-year layoff and upset Marvelous Marvin Hagler last night to become middleweight champion...
...They were flying, and we were able to upset them," Scalise said...
...reach his death-preventing money goal by the end of March. That apparently inspired a gift for precisely that amount last week from Collins, owner of two Florida dog-racing tracks with $50 million last year in gambling proceeds. Evangelicals consider gambling a sin, and the racetrack connection upset some old-time Roberts supporters...
Indeed, many administrators, while upset at the disturbing trend, seem puzzled about why it is happening and are not sure what to do about it. Though the number of black students has been dropping in many schools, that alone does not explain black frustration. Columbia, for example, claims an 11% enrollment of black undergraduates, a steady ten-year increase and among the highest of old-line private colleges. Said President Michael Sovern: "We thought we had left no doubt that racial harassment is never acceptable, least of all at Columbia...
...past two weeks, network and cable- television stations have fairly throbbed with elimination games, often featuring heroic and nameless underdogs with authentic chances. Within 90 minutes of Southwest Missouri State's invitation, a spontaneous pep rally of 3,000 fans lighted up Springfield on a Sunday night. The Bears upset Clemson and almost Kansas...