Word: upsetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Also no help to NATO morale is the attitude of France's Charles de Gaulle who now openly, almost contemptuously, rejects integrated European defense, the very cornerstone of the NATO concept. Upset by this, the smaller countries found a way to assert themselves when De Gaulle proposed that a permanent political consultative body be established within the new six-nation Common Market structure. Fearing this would mean domination by France, Belgium and The Netherlands bluntly vetoed the scheme. "We do not want our country run from the Quai d'Orsay," said one Dutch official...
Blob & Prosper. Ten years ago, at 28, he got his first art commission, a mural depicting "Children Begging" for the Amsterdam city-hall canteen. Lunching civil servants said it upset their digestion, hurled butter pats at it. The resulting controversy made him famous...
...this imagination adds up to a season that was both the Crimson's most satisfying in years and a curiously acute disappointment. To be the only team in the League to beat champion Penn, to upset both Princeton and Yale for the Big Three title, and then also to lose ingloriously to mediocre teams like Cornell and Brown--the final impression is a mixture of pleasure at a good season and disappointment at a couple of near-misses...
Although two weeks ago the Crimson was hoping for a Cornell upset this Thursday, happenings in the interim make a Penn win more advantageous for the varsity. If Cornell wins, the Crimson must share third place with not only Yale but also the Big Red. If Penn wins, the Crimson can claim to be the only team to be able to beat the Quakers, and for the second straight year will be the only League team to defeat the Ivy champion. IVY FOOTBALL STANDINGS W L T PF PA Pennsylvania 5 1 0 119 39 Dartmouth...
...Bonn there were two kinds of discontent last week: the politicians, upset because Chancellor Adenauer was not letting them in on his international dealings; the Chancellor, upset because his allies were not taking him into their confidence...