Word: upsetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fourth quarter, nine minutes to go, and top-rated Michigan was trailing underdog Iowa 21-13. The 72,096 fans in Michigan Stadium at Ann Arbor were braced for an upset. Then Michigan got the ball on its own nine-yard line, and Wolverine Quarterback Jim Maddock began throwing passes. Iowa had been playing a brilliant game, but now the afternoon's battering began to tell on the Iowa defense. Two series of Maddock passes netted touchdowns and Halfback Tony Branoff ran 30 yards for a third. In nine minutes, Michigan scored 20 points, won the game...
...single disease. It may be almost as variable as the many different forms of cancer. Neither can it have a single cause. There are at least eight mechanisms in the body operating to maintain an even blood pressure, and these are all interrelated. The balance of one cannot be upset without upsetting the balance of the others...
...Union. An attempt in a review conference to remove the veto power, for instance, could only antagonize the Soviets. Three years is a long time to wait, however, for a clarification of world politics. If the Soviet sun keeps shining for another year, a review conference should surely not upset any real change in Soviet attitude. And if the sunshine is only an illusion anyway, a review conference would only reveal already existing differences between East and West...
...angry varsity eleven, determined to play its top game of football, will run onto the Stadium turf this afternoon to face an upset-minded Bucknell squad. Starting time for what promises to be a close contest...
...reunion upset the balance in the Diet, but was likely to provoke a similar reunion between Hatoyama's Democrats and the Liberals of Ex-Premier Shigeru Yoshida, which would give conservatives a 147-seat majority and Japan the near equivalent of a two-party system...