Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo's 41st Division basketball team upset the dope by whipping Okinawa's Flyers (Long Island University's 1942 wizard team almost intact), then flattened Hawaii for the championship...
Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, away three and a half years from editing Manhattan's pinko tabloid PM, cast a returned-war-veteran's eye on his strike-stricken homeland, bubbled happily in his first editorial: "Everybody else seems terribly upset . . . and I discover I feel fine about it."' Reason for feeling fine: 1) the auto strikers' solidarity; 2) the "exciting new note of unity" in the telephone and wire strikes; 3) the lack of complacency among industrialists; 4) the homesick G.I.s' "refusal ... to be content with the malarkey." Summed up happy Veteran Ingersoll: "I am sorry...
...days things went with unexpected smoothness. Then, suddenly, the road got bumpy. General Chang insisted that the Government must occupy Communist-claimed Jehol and Chahar provinces, on the flank of the overland route between North China and Manchuria. General Chou sharply dissented. Plainly upset, he stalked out. "Regrettable!" he muttered...
...Toledo had a deadly two-handed overhand set-shot artist; diagnosis showed that rushing him as soon as he made an upward motion upset his timing by a split second-all that was necessary...
Said one British doctor, as reported in the New Statesman and Nation: "I've had to stop putting American magazines in my waiting room. Their Technicolor food advertisements upset my patients, whose food is so monochromatic...