Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away at the lead. They scored one run in the third, another in the fifth, two in the seventh. Casey began to worry about those lost chances. He juggled his line-up like a man possessed. Now Martin was out with a torn fingernail; Berra was gone with an upset stomach, and Charley Silvera was back of the plate. Starting the ninth, the Yanks were only two thin runs in front...
...semifinal, against Seixas, Rosewall looked even better than he did playing for the cup. Vic never had a chance, and he seemed to know it. All he could do was make a gentlemanly speech about losing to a better player. It was Hoad who first upset the dope. Facing a rejuvenated Trabert, he took three games and then fell apart. He gave the match away...
Once more the absence of Little Mo Connolly put the women's championship up for grabs. Everyone seemed to have a chance. First, second-seeded Louise Brough was upset by tiny Belmar Gunderson; then third-seeded Beverly Baker Fleitz was overrun by 17-year-old Junior Champion Barbara Breit. In the end, though, steady Doris Hart held on to her title. In a one-sided final, she whipped England's Pat Ward...
...match or break. Bothered by a blister on his racket hand, Trabert weakened in the third set, dropped five straight games. In the fourth set, ahead by 7-6, Hoad switched tactics, stopped blasting Trabert's serves and began dinking the ball back. Trabert's timing was upset. He could not clear the shots fired at his feet, then and there lost game and match...
...sounds are balmy as a West Indian zephyr, satisfyingly in tune, and played with carefree spirit. The rhythms are intricately Afro-Cuban, e.g., meringue, samba, mambo, although they eventually fall into a predictable pattern. High points: a gimp-gaited calypso about a cricket upset ("Who taught you to bowl, Australia?"), and another that laments some aspects of the latest white man's invasion, a number called Brown-Skinned...