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Word: upsets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until Saturday, the stickwomen had spent the season surprising people, going into games as the underdog only to psych themselves to a sky-high level and pull off the upset...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Tigers Claw Radcliffe Dreams | 10/27/1976 | See Source »

...junior varsity, with Harvard runner Dave Sullivan placing second, upset the Northeastern Harriers, 24-37, in what coach Hunt described as "a tactically superb race...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Huskies Outpace Harvard As Crimson Runs Strong | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Paley had more tangible reasons to be upset. This year CBS is having trouble coming up with big new TV shows. For the first time since the 1950s, the company is behind ABC and NBC in the audience ratings. Since programming is not a direct responsibility of CBS's president, Taylor might seem to be free of responsibility for the plunge in ratings or the consequent six-point drop in CBS stock since the new TV season began last month. But Paley, some insiders believe, blamed Taylor. He invented the industry's new "family viewing hour"-the sanitized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Behind the Purge at CBS | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Everyone familiar with the Jim Kubacki story knows that he missed last year's upset with a shoulder injury, which makes Princeton the only Ivy League team in the world never to have been defeated by a Kubacki-quarterbacked team...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gridders Invade Princeton; Top Spot Is at Stake | 10/23/1976 | See Source »

...Crimson will upset the Tigers today and shift their slow-moving fall campaign from low into high gear. And why not? I hear that George Gallup will be out of town--in Virginia or someplace--and besides, the result of any given Ivy League soccer game is no more predictable than was the 1948 presidential election...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Mr. Ford Goes to Princeton | 10/23/1976 | See Source »

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