Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NROTC Almost Upset...
Wednesday an upset almost developed as a spirited Adams eleven held the Eliot NROTC in check, 0 to 0 for 55 minutes before Jenkins skirted left end for the game's only touchdown. Earlier in the hard-fought battle, the Goldcoasters had driyen deep into NROTC territory only to lose possession of the ball...
Show-Me State. In key Missouri, the Democrats scored an upset. The victor: tall, silver-haired Phil M. Donnelly, veteran state legislator. The loser: his fellow townsman (Lebanon) Jean Paul Bradshaw...
...Idle and ill-mannered jesting ... deplorable especially in a clergyman," observed the vicar's bishop last week. But Vicar Green was not particularly upset by the censure. He was, in fact, quite busy reading some 300 approving letters. He also had a call from a Canadian soldier representing 900 wounded Canadians; they wanted the vicar to know they were...
...Paris plus the Departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise). Last August, during the battle of Paris, the Swedish Minister and a French military delegate negotiated an armistice with the German garrison. But Colonel Rol-Tanguy denounced it, ordered his Maquis to continue street fighting. It was this armistice upset which compelled the Allies to come to the aid of the besieged F.F.I. instead of sweeping around Paris...