Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing is too difficult. Their outfielders make octopus catches, pick off base runners with the cool precision of anti-aircraft guns. Their runners can beat out any bunt, are shamefaced if they can't make third from first on an outfield single. Last week these scooping, swooping musketmen upset Yankee morale. In the first game of the Series, with Old Reliable Red Ruffing only four putouts away from a no-hitter, they staged a rally that scored four runs, sent Ruff to the showers and nearly stole the ball game...
Fifteen lettermen are back this fall from the squad that pulled a 3-0 upset on Dartmouth last year, and they started this year by taking over Navy by the same score. The third dangerous team that the Crimson has to face in succession, the Southerners feature straight power plays, operating from the good old single wing formation...
Stacked up against the array of luminaries in blue and gold, the Crimson becomes a prohibitive short-ender. But the Harlowmen have played the role of the "hopeless underdog" many times before this, and more than once have hammered out an upset that left the experts hanging on the ropes
...raid, which came at 1:10 p.m., not only upset lunch at our internment camp on the edge of Tokyo, but kept us indoors for the next two days, extinguished the charcoal fires by which we cooked and held up mail delivery for 24 hours...
France, however, was another story. As it had during many months of facile prophecy, the democratic world looked to France to provide the first mighty upset to Hitler's calculations. Did not France's spruce, civilized generals, packed with the lore of St. Cyr. command the smartest army in the world? Was it not based on the impregnable subterranean bastions of the Maginot Line? Furthermore, in these early days of September 1939, the Maginot Line was widely regarded, not as a defensive masterpiece alone, but also as an ideal point of departure for an invasion of Germany. Amateur...