Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that had finally frightened the speculator into panicky selling was a decision by the Federal Government to cut purchases of grains for November export by some 50 million bu., 42% below the July-October level. And traders who had expected frost to nip the short corn crop, were upset by the Department of Agriculture's announcement that half the corn crop had matured and was safe from the frost...
...Lucky Forward: 1) ". ... Patton was the greatest battle commander produced in this country since the Civil War"; 2) Patton would have ended the European war months sooner had not SHAEF stymied the Third Army every time it got rolling; 3) had Patton's plans not been upset by higher headquarters, the Germans could never have mounted their Ardennes campaign; 4) many of the Third Army's great victories were won only because Patton, sometimes with General Omar Bradley's help, attacked when SHAEF wanted him to defend...
...stolen 26 bases this season, more than any other National Leaguer. He dances and prances off base, keeping the enemy's infield upset and off balance, and worrying the pitcher. The boys call it "showboat baseball." He is not, in his first year, the greatest baserunner since Ty Cobb, but he is mighty good. Cobb made a practice of coming in with spikes aimed at anyone brave enough to get in his way. It wouldn't have been politic for Jackie to do it that way very often. Robinson's base running, which resembles more the trickiness...
...surgical hole in the stomach wall (made for feeding the patient after she had accidentally swallowed some lye), Drs. Russell J. Crider and Shepard M. Walker of Washington University found that the girl's stomach was quieter and secreted less gastric juice when she was angry or upset than when she was in normally good spirits. This is just the reverse of the tightened-up way a man's stomach behaves when he is emotionally aroused...
...Freshmen outplayed the undefeated Crimson jayvees while losing a thriller, 14 to 8, and then cut loose with three final victories. Dartmouth and Brown succumbed by respective scores of 20 to 0 and 28 to 7, and the Yardlings concluded their season with a spectacular 12 to 6 upset of unbeaten Yale...