Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picking up his telephone in Milwaukee one August night in 1957, Wisconsin's Edward William Proxmire offered particular congratulations to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson on Johnson's 49th birthday. Boomed the Democrat who had just won Joe McCarthy's seat in an upset election: "Senator Johnson, I've got the biggest birthday present of 'em all for you; me." Last week Bill Proxmire became an Indian giver. Incensed over what he considers Johnson's highhanded conservative control of the Senate, Liberal Proxmire went into rebellion...
...would seem to back their contention. Yale split with Princeton, winning 3 to 2 after bowing by a 3-1 score; the Crimson tied the Tigers, 5 to 5. In the last Dartmouth game Yale lost by a 5-4 count, the varsity by 4 to 3. The Elis upset B.U. by a 5-2 margin, while Harvard was held...
Frogkicking Bill Schellstede had little trouble in winning the butterfly and Eric Johnson upset teammate Chick Montgomery in the dive, the latter finishing third. Bob Komenda turned in a good performance winning the 440-yard freestyle over Bob Friedlander in 5:08. Although Brown's best swimmers won the final relay, the winning points did not figure in the outcome...
North Carolina, which took the lead a week ago, skidded to third place after an upset by Maryland...
...closest race of the afternoon, Crimson miler Jed Fitzgerald overhauled his favored opponent, Dick Healy, with 50 yards to go and finished first in 4:20.5. The varsity's Bob Downs upset pre-meet predictions to win the broad jump...