Word: upset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...KNEW WHAT IT ENTAILS," HARRY Truman said in 1947, "no man in his right mind would ever want to be President." And then Truman began the climb to his upset election victory in 1948, the redeemed, born-again, comeback model Bill Clinton hopes to emulate next year. But why did Truman run? Nelson Rockefeller explained the itch this way: "We're politicians, and like in any profession, we want to reach the top, which in America means only one thing...
...believe that large numbers of voters have already written off the Democratic Party. White working males strayed Republican in record numbers last year; only 38% voted for Democratic candidates. The President himself, say the Republicans, is equally at risk. G.O.P. focus groups report that even many Democrats are still upset by two indicators of the President's liberal leanings: his early push to have the military accept gay soldiers, and his support for a health-care-reform program widely viewed as seeking to burden middle-class citizens in order to cover the uninsured...
...though, the surfing state has been riding a wave of sustained recovery. And the buoyancy has helped carry Wilson into the front rank of potential contenders for the Republican ticket. Finally he has something to sing about. Says political consultant Joseph Cerell, a Democrat: "Wilson pulled off the biggest upset of the '94 election because Kathleen Brown was considered a slam-dunk winner, and that comeback-of-the-year award has raised him to presidential status...
...needs things to be really neat. I am not a neat person. I was trying really hard to keep things neat, but I failed," he winces. "Mike was kind of tense and the last straw was when I left a used tea-bag on his chair. He was really upset and things were just never seemed to swing back into place. We didn't room together this year...
...category, which focuses on "major issues of the contemporary world," and a B category, which presents "the documented details of some transforming event or group of events," according to the Courses of Instruction. Granted, 10a and 10b don't fit neatly into either category, but it wouldn't upset any great cosmic order to add these two classes to the A category, the broader of the two. It is the reluctance of the subcommittee to take this minor step that is the problem...