Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopped digesting the Globe and the Times with my morning Maltex oatmeal and o.j. Reports of Hanafi gunmen upset my stomach, and interest rate changes give me heartburn. So I read the weekly accounts of amazing occurences that are happening right under our very noses: your nose, my nose, Walter Cronkite's nose. I read the schlock news, in papers like Midnight, National Enquirer, and the Star...
...upset that there may be millions of people in this country who believe in flying saucers, or cancer cures, or Farrah Fawcett Majors. But I wish we could feel a part of the "beautiful people" universe, rather than just having to read about it all the time. After all, while I am studying my Economics or sitting in the cafeteria eating a Jimmy-Carter-and-jelly sandwich, there are people dying and fighting giant cockroaches in Egypt and kicking strange monsters out of upstairs attics. Barbara Walters may get to meet them, and I suppose even Marie Osmond gets...
Some students contacted were less upset. "I'm not worried," A. Wing Sommers '80 said yesterday. "We just bought ten cases of Tab," he said...
...Radcliffe fencing team shocked the female foil and epee world last Sunday. Seeded eighth in the New England Women's Fencing Championships, the swordswomen upset four teams to finish fourth out of 15 in the tourney...
...swordswomen just missed out on the supreme upset, though. Another victorious bout on the day would have tied them for third and qualified the team for the National championships. As it happened they finished behind Yale, Brandeis, and Maine...