Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native Boston. Later he is mentioned as a man who reads and writes all day, has "the preoccupied look of a secret agent" and free-associates about Goethe with his psychiatrist. The author seems to have measured elements of Lowell very carefully, knowing that his specific gravity could easily upset the delicate balance of her fiction...
...journalist's state of mind could be probed in libel suits (the court so ruled two days later). O'Brien afterward disclosed that a lower-court decision involving prisoners' rights would be reversed (the ruling has not yet been announced). Chief Justice Warren Burger was so upset over O'Brien's leaks that he did some detective work. The result: last week John A. Tucci, a Government Printing Office employee who sets Supreme Court rulings in type, was transferred to the U.S. Patent Office. Burger will not say how he concluded that Tucci...
...Harvard laxwomen posted their biggest win of the season yesterday afternoon when they upset Yale, the top-ranked team in New England, by a 5-4 score in a pressure-cooker of a game...
...Crimson play in the New England's next weekend. Then they ride into Princeton, N.J., the following Wednesday to play Jay Lapidus and Co. A Crimson victory would be an upset. But after the 8-1 romp over a Yale group that Princeton beat only 6-3, the Crimson netmen might, like Tug McGraw, be beginning to believe...
...billed as a battle of the heavyweight best. It had been called a preview of the May 12 Sprints. But on an unusually calm Charles River, the event turned out to be little more than a continuation of the past three years, as a powerful Yale eight smoked an upset-minded Radcliffe boat by an open-water, 10-second margin...