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Word: upsets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alice Savoy is making her second try for city council because she wants to show the incumbent councilors that she's upset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Candidate Profiles | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

...action. At the next board session, Yale in a prayer asked his opponents to resign. Says Goshorn with a cherubic smile: "They probably thought Burt had flipped out." In fact, Noorda, four outside directors and six of the company's top ten salesmen-some of them Jews upset by the stress on fundamentalist Christianity -quickly departed, shattering morale at the plant. Since then Goshorn and Yale have been in full control, but their piety has yet to bring the company any material reward. General Automation, which lost about $4 million in fiscal 1975, v. a $4 million profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Bibles in the Board Room | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

Holy Cross, winless in six outings, upset the previously unbeaten Bruins in a classic humdinger, 21-20. In Princeton, the Quakers from Penn finally felt their oats, toppling the Tigers...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Crusaders Nip Brown, 21-20; Penn Tops Tigers; Yale Wins | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

Penn QB Bob Graustein picked apart the highly acclaimed Princeton defense for 239 passing yards enroute to the Quakers' upset win. The rivals entered the fourth quarter in a 14-14 deadlock. Tiger mainstay Bob Reid and Penn counterpart Jack Wixted had accounted for all the scoring at that stage of the pivotal debacle...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Crusaders Nip Brown, 21-20; Penn Tops Tigers; Yale Wins | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

THWACK! THUD! McInally shook his head, upset that he still hadn't mastered the business of kicking soccer balls with his instep. He would practice a few with a football. "It's hard after all these years," he said to Lincoln and Brynteson. "And I was never coordinated...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: McInally, Bengal in Limbo, Quietly Returns to Harvard | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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