Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of my belief in the First Amendment, the cover story on pornography [April 5] upset me greatly. The porn boom has reached levels that are totally antifemale, antifreedom, anti-love. The result: dehumanization...
...should do better, but we're not really a light-air team," coach Mike Horn said yesterday. "I can't get all that upset about the results, given the conditions," he said...
Last week, as Thailand held parliamentary elections, life exceeded reel politics. Kukrit, 65, Thailand's Prime Minister for the past year, was upset in a bid for reelection. A major reason for his loss was that once again he had run afoul of Americans. This time the issue was the U.S. military presence in Thailand. To improve relations with Thailand's two Communist neighbors-Laos and Cambodia-and reduce protests from Thai leftists, Kukrit last month ordered the U.S. to close its bases and trim personnel from the present 3,500 (down from 49,500 at the height...
What could upset the relatively pleasing picture? A weather disaster affecting this year's corn, wheat or soybean crops could do it, but the impact would not be noticeable on market shelves until 1977. Although many farmers from Iowa to Texas are worried about a drought, and there has been some damage to the winter wheat crop, grain prices have so far been only slightly affected. The outlook is for continued calm, with the main beneficiaries-in this election year-being the millions of middle-and lower-income families that spend more of their available cash on food than...
...DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN gaffe, two television networks were sharing their humiliation with an audience of millions, and Jimmy Carter had snatched a memorable psychological victory in the Wisconsin Democratic primary. All this because in their race to be first, ABC and NBC had declared Congressman Morris Udall an upset winner instead of what he was about to be, a game loser...