Word: upset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush traveled the state, running as a baseball man and stadium builder as well as Famous Son, moving toward an upset of popular incumbent Ann Richards, he applied the lessons he'd learned from his father, his mother, Kent Hance, Lee Atwater: Trust your instincts, stay on message, be down-home, enforce discipline. His campaign deftly exploited Texans' fear of crime, though crime had been dropping in the state for years (somewhere, Atwater was smiling). Richards baited Bush mercilessly, calling him an elitist and a "Shrub," and everyone expected Bush to lose his famous temper. He never did. He stayed...
...course, for all the wrangling over space in Cambridge, Harvard's newest purchases--more than 50 acres in the working-class Allston neighborhood--would seem to be likely candidates for cultural development, providing a convenient introductory peace offering to a community originally upset with the secretive nature of Harvard's purchases...
...captain Courtney Swain topped off four great years with a huge upset victory over both the Bulldogs and Tigers. Out-flipping her competitors with rip after rip, Swain held off the intense charge of her rival divers to win the 3m board by about one point, with a total...
...were upset when we found out, but we're trying to look at it as an opportunity for change, and change isn't necessarily a bad thing," junior Eric Lauer said. "We just hope that whoever we get as our next coach can have a similar kind of relationship with us as [Doyle...
Despite solid representation from the foilists and a 5-3 upset of Princeton's Orsi Szotyory-Grove--who finished third at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) Championships--by freshman Nicole Jarrett, the Tigers rolled, 22-10 and the Bulldogs followed suit, topping Harvard...