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Word: upsets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pushing disaster into our children's future." The Admiral's assault seems an odd political tactic since Byrd, also a supporter of the Pentagon, has not taken any stand for or against Kissinger's policies. Nevertheless, veteran Virginia politicians give Zumwalt a slim fighting chance to upset Byrd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Flank Assault | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...Soviets hold four of five world marks. Impressive, but somewhat deceptive. The records were all set at high altitude, in Alma-Ata, near the Chinese border. That might mean that American Peter Mueller, Holland's Hans van Helden or two Norwegians, Jan Egil Storholt and Sten Stensen, can upset the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Short Guide to All the Action | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...world of the bouncing ball, the Crimson hoopsters haven't been doing too much dribbling lately, but the Princeton Tigers have. The Tigers methodically moved into the Associated Press's Top Twenty this week with a 58-55 upset of St. John's last Saturday. Princeton stands 17th, and leads the nation in team defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skaters Ranked Ninth in Weekly Poll | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...total b.s., and I don't even want to talk about it," one says) to passive acceptance of the doctrinal justification with hopes that Prophet Kimball will have a revelation admitting blacks. Matt Thomas "77 accepts the prohibition as legitimately based on Mormon scriptures, but he becomes upset and ashamed when some Mormons take the "tiny fact [of prohibition] to say blacks are inferior." He adds, "I'm convinced that blacks at some point will receive the priesthood right by revelation...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Doubters in the Temple | 1/23/1976 | See Source »

...that the best way to solve our popularity problem is to remove all traces of uniqueness from the Quad houses, to make them as indistinguishable from other Houses as possible. If the same program of social engineering were proposed for Kirkland House, no doubt its residents would be equally upset. If Quad residents sometimes seem overly defensive, perhaps it is because we always end up having to defend. If your House lacked physical facilities, geographic proximity, and most of all, respectability within the Harvard/Radcliffe housing system--if the only things that made living in your House worthwhile were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAGE AGAINST THE RATIO | 1/21/1976 | See Source »

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