Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown acquired the sole rights of possession to the number one slot last Saturday by overrunning Cornell, 28-12, in a bruising victory that shattered the week-old hazy afterglow of Cornell's Harvard upset...
Penn, riding on the surge of last week's Brown upset, stretched its winning streak to two games by toppling Lafayette, 15-14. The victory came on a one-yd, plunge by running back Johnny Mason late in the fourth quarter...
...would be a lot more upset about your somewhat gratuitous reference to the Delta Democrat-Times as a "second-rate" newspaper if I thought it was written by someone who had actually read the paper. But it fits in nicely with the generally half-witted tone of your issue on the South...
With a Kennedyesque head of hair complete with untamed forelock, Sasser, 40, parlayed an infectious grin, native acumen and political apprenticeship with Democrats Estes Kefauver and Albert Gore into an upset primary victory. Now he stalks voters relentlessly, grasping hands, patting farmers' backs and children's heads, spouting a Carter-like populism and depicting the beleaguered Brock as a patrician far removed from the concerns of ordinary people...
...Thompson Pass is only one of the obstacles that could still upset the timetable. Another is the need to unearth, test, mend and backfill the last 200 of 3,955 "suspect" welds-about 10% of the total-that earlier this year were discovered to have been inspected sloppily or not at all. Some are buried under ice-covered river crossings, and they will have to be dug up and, if necessary, rewelded before the salmon return next spring. That chore, wryly says one Alyeska technician, promises to be "another wildly interesting experiment in arctic engineering." It could...