Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading ground-gainer, averaged 11.3 yds. a carry for 135 yds. as little (enrollment: 1,670) College of the Pacific rolled over Brigham Young 26-8. Outgained in all departments, Navy made use of a rocklike defense to stop Michigan drives seven times, pull a 20-14 upset to label itself a slight threat to Army in the East. Cornell proved once more the folly of Ivy League teams competing outside their own bailiwick. The undefeated Big Red got mauled 55-0 by Syracuse in a game so lopsided that Syracuse Coach Ben Schwartzwalder had to send...
...statement released by Martin Silverman '59, president of the U.N. Council, declared that the organization "was upset" by the speed with which the Student Council made its decision to withdraw. Silverman's statement noted that while the U.N. Council recognized as valid the Student Council's criticisms of the NSA, it regretted "that these organs and programs of value to campus groups would, because of the Student Council's action, no longer be available to them...
...watched German soldiers primping for the Kaiser's birthday). Discovering that the laws of chance underlie much in nature, Arp turned out a series of paste-ups produced by letting bits of paper float down upon a glue-coated board. Later he meticulously executed paper cutouts, was terribly upset when they began yellowing and spotting with age. He reacted by trying to incorporate time into his work by crumbling the paper in advance. "I realized one cannot achieve an absolute result. One must include death. One must not make a perfect line but a torn line...
When will U.S. steelmen learn "the hard way" that they cannot compete? Answered Glossbrenner: As soon as the Soviets have satisfied their own domestic demand for steel, start dumping cut-rate steel abroad, upset world markets as they did this year in aluminum and tin. Glossbrenner said that the U.S. can get competitive only by spurring workers' productivity. One way to do it, he advised, is for "strong" managers to hold the line on wages until workers become more productive, and to create "an overall attitude of discipline in the mills that strengthens the right of management to make...
...Northwestern, winless all last year, kicked its first three conversions, made two points by passing on its last try to build a crucial edge, pulled off a 29-28 upset over highly rated Washington State...