Word: upset
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Andrea began to fray. She became absorbed in the Bible. Rusty came home one day to find Noah upset because Andrea had berated him about an assignment. "Nothing would get her to laugh," says her brother Andrew. "She would not ask us for help. Maybe she didn't know how." She constantly held Mary but would not feed her. She stopped talking. She went days without drinking liquids. She began scratching her head to baldness again. It was just three weeks since her father's death...
...government would abuse someone in such a way; as a Muslim, I am frightened that presumed religious fundamentalists have been so psychologically and physically tortured that they have tried to kill themselves (suicide, according to Islam, sends one straight to hell); and as a U.S. citizen, I am upset and find it morally unacceptable that inhuman acts are committed in our country's name. Salem Samra, M.D. New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. The detentions at Gitmo are immoral, illegal by international standards and profoundly un-American. It's time to shut this abomination down before we create even more enemies than...
...upset, observers say, was due partly to low voter turnout and to the presence of a third "spoiler" candidate. But she also appears to have suffered from the controversy surrounding her scuffle with a Capitol Hill cop that landed her in a grand jury trial in which she was ultimately acquitted. Redistricting, which shed some of McKinney's antagonistic white constituency, did not appear to help...
...could use his money to help African-Americans. Fomenting more ill will, she later suggested that the Bush Administration may have had advance knowledge about the attacks. This energized pro-Israel activists, long critical of McKinney's voting record on the Jewish state, and in 2002 she was upset in the Democratic primary by Denise Majette. She regained the seat two years later after Majette opted for an unsuccessful Senate...
...that if she stays quiet, keeps to herself, that she's likely to get a pass." One indication of MicKinney's chances: Towery's firm is doing no polling on the race - which it would likely do, he said, if "we thought that there was any chance of an upset...