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Word: upsets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down in the sea," said Melling casually. "There are sharks in these waters, but that's where we'll go." He described in vivid detail the risks of ditching: the wheels break off, the plane smashes open, passengers are disgorged helplessly into waiting schools of sharks. This so upset Mohammed that he eagerly agreed to try landing at Djibouti, which was Melling's alternative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: I Knew That You'd Make It' Aboard Cyprus Airways Flight 007 to Djibouti and back | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...meet was not nearly over, however, as the Crimson almost pulled off the upset with some gutsy performances after that. Freshman Geoff Seelen provided some very key points, and qualified for his third event at the NCAAs by nailing down second place in the 200-yd. backstroke...

Author: By Robert Grady, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Princeton Edges Crimson at Eastern | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Penders's record at Columbia lends credence to the old saw that "quality players breed quality players." McLaughlin said he hoped the Crimson's staggering upset of Penn would persuade potential players to come to Harvard next year and set the recruiting cycle in motion. After last weekend's losses the Harvard basketball bubble burst but, as Jack Reardon, Harvard's athletic director noted, "it wasn't much of a bubble...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Line on the Lions | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

...delinquency notice, which threatened disciplinary action including dismissal, upset several students who were mistakenly accused of not turning in their cards...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber and Harry Litman, S | Title: Several Study Cards Lost In Registrar Office Shuffle | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

When the Elis' rookie mentor Paul Katz threw his top medley relay at the Crimson to give his team a 7-0 lead, the home crowd at Yale's hpstoric Kiphuth Pool was thinking upset...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Crimson Aquamen Splash Yale, 83-30 | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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