Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of the upset spread in Montevideo, a delirious mob, waving handkerchiefs and banners of white, the National Party's color, rallied round a ramshackle old mansion, pushed through moldering ground-floor rooms littered with photographs of Uruguayan heroes and of Mussolini, surrounded a brass bed where an emaciated old man lay, his revolver and Gaucho knife handy on the night table. "Patriarch," cried a leader, "we bring you victory!" Luis Alberto de Herrera, 85, the cantankerous spellbinder chief of the Nationals, bounced out of bed and spun about in a round of backslapping...
Farm Revolt. But the upset was also a rebuke by farmers and ranchers-who paid welfarism's costs-to the citified beneficiaries in Montevideo (pop. 900,000). The leader of the farm revolt was Benito Nardone, 52, a radio personality with a big rural following. Years ago, Montevideo-born Nardone, stevedore, union organizer, newsman and backlands traveling salesman, sat in Congress as a Colorado. He quit in disgust when told to confine himself to drawing his pay and keeping his mouth shut. Taking to the air in 1942, gossipy Benito Nardone set out to woo the farmers, got their...
...viewing the world through "European eyes," the Republicans, while they correctly recognized the importance of Asia as a unique political area, made the mistake of regarding foreign policy as essentially military policy. Thus the fiasco of unleashing Chiang ("In an effort to create a world balance of power, we upset the local balance of power"), thus the Baghdad Pact ("Just because NATO worked in Europe, people thought the idea best for every region"), thus the utopian SEATO pipe dream ("We've armed an awful lot of people in Asia who would never think of firing a gun, not even...
Usami rose, expressed his profound regrets, left the room-but was back just as quickly to remark that His Imperial Highness would be greatly upset. Would not the Shodas please reconsider? Completing the ritual, Shoda bowed again, gave his consent...
Last week Princeton and Dartmouth met for the league championship. Both had been upset en route: Princeton had lost to Cornell and Dartmouth to Harvard. On form Princeton was given a minuscule edge, yet Dartmouth won the game 21-12. In the Ivy League, it usually happens that...