Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lived in Matthews when it was still an all-male dorm had such a duo. One proctor was third in his class at Harvard Law and didn't know when to stop. He was so competitive that even a waterfight became a contest. If he lost he'd be upset for days, and he'd sneak up on people hours later with buckets full of water to drench them in revenge. The other one was an easygoing Mr. Open Door, a beer-drinking football player who took his boys out to girls' colleges on weekends. The two rarely spoke...
President Ford is right. This loss of Faith really is a big problem. So far everyone from the U.S. Army to Mao Tse-tung to my nephew seems to be implicated in losing Faith. No wonder Dr. Kissinger is to upset. Not even William Colby can assassinate all those people...
...even the flap over whether Rocky would be a political drag for Ford next year upset the Vice President very long. As a result and after a cozy helicopter flight with the President, Rockefeller and Ford may be closer than ever. Ford and his new campaign manager, Howard ("Bo") Callaway, the former Secretary of the Army and conservative Georgia Congressman, had wanted to try to disarm the militant right-wingers of the G.O.P., who still dislike Rocky. But Callaway's quite correct assessments that the Vice President's "liberalism" and age would be political problems in 1976 caused...
...downs, but last week the Boston Globe may have rocked them further with a front-page story that Israel had a secret arsenal of more than ten nuclear weapons. Nobody had ever before reported so authoritatively that Israel possessed bombs, though it had been widely assumed. What upset some observers -particularly those at the Pentagon and in the State Department-was less the revelation than the name of the article's author, William Beecher. Globe Diplomatic Correspondent Beecher was for the past two years-until last May -Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, a sensitive post...
...various projects in Chicago's inner city, it was ironic that he ran aground over black education. It was not the decision itself that caused the trouble. Enrollment at the schools had been dwindling steadily, and Cody argued that the costs had become prohibitive. One thing that upset some priests was that the school shutdowns came four months after Cody had unveiled a closed-circuit educational-TV network for the archdiocese that cost $4 million to build and will take $750,000 a year to run. At the time, the cardinal told reporters that there were plenty of surplus...