Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitution that removed all civic concessions from the Army and Navy and reduced them to a position of subservience to the State. He also accorded labor extensive rights, to the annoyance of native and foreign investors. World War II and the consequent loss of the European sugar market seriously upset Cuban economy and confronted Batista with the problem of pacifying conservative groups while still keeping his promises to labor. The makings of a spicy political stew were in the pot. Last week it boiled over...
None other than the Big Red basketball team from-Cornell was the upset victim of Coach Wes Fesler's forces as the home team triumphed 30 to 28 last night before a capacity crowd in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Coach Fesler expects his men will hit their stride tonight for the first time since the disastrous mid-year examination layoff. If they do, they will have a good chance to upset the cocky visitors...
...Penn match at Philadelphia, although well played, showed the effects of the long ride, as the home team leaders Horace Hill and Tom Tyler upset Nickerson and Lyell respectively. The remainder of the Crimson men swept their contests...
While they nursed the wounding news of the fall of Tobruch last week, Italians were also upset by stories in the international press of violent disaffection in Milan, Turin, Trieste, other crowded cities of the industrial North. Emanating mostly from Belgrade, the reports claimed that three unnamed Italian generals had been assassinated, Trieste women had rioted in a breadline, Lloyd Triestino shipyard workers had struck and angrily burlesqued Il Duce, a mob with knives and pistols had attacked Nazi officers in Milan...