Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stabilize exchange-the ratio between currencies-can be permanently successful. But in the case of a temporary recession, or other postwar difficulty, a nation aided by the Fund could have a few months to set its affairs in order without resorting to embargoes, currency depreciation and other measures that upset world trade...
...year custodianship of nine-year-old son Lance, was surprised when ex-Husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow dropped his complete-custody suit (TIME, June 5), shocked when she heard that the Count had whisked the boy off to Canada. "Like any mother," said the five-&-dime Countess, "I am upset and distressed." The Count's attorney accused her of not bringing up Lance like "a gentleman and a scholar," explained the whisking: "The Count heard that Countess Barbara had threatened . . . to take the boy to Spain...
Maier's plan derives from experiments which upset orthodox psychological notions. He forced rats to jump at one of two differently marked cards, one of which led to food while the other only bruised the rats' tender snouts. Then he switched the cards. Result: the rats became wildly neurotic. When repeatedly frustrated, a rat would throw itself blindly again & again at an unyielding card, even though there was food in plain sight beside...
...seeded, Dorothy May Bundy, 27, of Santa Monica, Calif.; her first na tional clay-courts tennis championship ; by defeating fourth-seeded Mary Arnold 7-5, 6-4 ; at the Detroit Tennis Club. Daughter of May Sutton and Tom Bundy, both former national-title holders, the new champion scored the upset of the year by eliminating National Champion Pauline Betz, 7-5, 6-3, in the semifinals...
...Other ejected diplomats: in 1793, French Minister Edmond Charles Genet, because he had been appealing to the American people to upset President Washington's neutrality laws; in 1888, British Ambassador Lionel Sackville-West, after publication of a letter he wrote to a U.S. citizen advising him to vote for the re-election of President Cleveland...