Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year, the varsity upset a powerful Eli squad down at New Haven to take the Eastern League title. They defend this laurel now without the services of Dale Junta and Larry Sears,--first two singles men and the first doubles pair--who have both graduated. Yale, on the other hand, has its top six men back intact, and it will take another magnificent effort like last May's for Barnaby's team to overcome the New Haven powerhouse...
...other game yesterday, Frank Robinson's two-run homer and Bob Purkey's six-hit pitching sparked Cincinnati to a 4-1 upset over pennant-hopeful Pittsburgh...
Understandably upset over the disaster, Governor Bernard induced the Legislature to vote funds to rebuild Harvard Hall, to buy a fire engine for the College and to aid students who lost books and furniture. Donations of money and books were sent from all over the Colonies-and even from the Mother Country. Two years later Harvard Hall was reconstructed at a cost...
...loss of East German production would upset master plans, close factories and throw men out of work from Warsaw to Peking. Khrushchev obviously has no intention of bargaining away his hold: he wants to be confirmed...
...Madison Square Garden, sharpshooting St. John's of Brooklyn beat top-seeded Bradley 76-71, in overtime, to win the National Invitation Tournament. In Louisville's Freedom Hall, California's underrated Golden Bears slowed West Virginia's fast break, squeezed out a 71-70 upset victory in the N.C.A.A. championship finals...