Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think of a single faculty member who isn't upset at this policy," Gilmore said...
...answer." Perhaps Rowling should have looked at the mirror himself. Last week, as he prepared to hand over power to Muldoon's triumphant New Zealand National Party, the outgoing Prime Minister allowed that he felt as though he had "been run over by a bus." In an upset, the conservative Nationalists won a 19-seat majority in the 87-member Parliament, almost matching Labor's sweep in 1972, when it ousted the National Party after twelve years in office...
...teaching, often laced with a strong dose of fundamentalist Christianity. Charlotte's Queen City Christian Academy (enrollment: 50) was founded by parents who objected to sex education courses in the public schools. Other Southern parents say they are enrolling their children in academies because they are as upset by a loosening of academic standards and a lack of discipline in the public schools as they are about race. "They are trying to re-create the society they knew before," says David Nevin, research director of the Lamar Society, a civic-minded group of liberal Southerners that is studying...
...Crimson's hopes for an upset were deflated at the outset. After James Kaller had been outpointed in the 18 class, Yasunaga was pinned by his Hofstra opponent, who is ranked third nationally. The matmen were then successively cut down up to the 158 pound slot held down by Corcoran. In a show-stopping clash Corcoran racked up a pin with only two seconds left in the match, while trailing...
Hunt Block's first place performance in the long jump with a leap of 21 ft. 10 1/2 in. was a "legitimate upset," according to McCurdy...