Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dilemma. Confronted with that cry, Eisenhower & Co. had to find an answer that did not say yes and did not say no. To say yes would be to undercut the United Nations, upset U.S. efforts to ease the Lebanon crisis by getting U.N. forces to replace U.S. troops. To say no would be to invite-unnecessarily-the duckings of the neutralist world and-more important-to strain the home-front political position of that valuable ally, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, already under considerable to-the-summit pressure from Laborites. In talks with Dulles, Britain's Foreign...
Coming atop deals engineered by Mattei in Iran and Egypt that upset the old pattern of fifty-fifty profit splits between private companies that took the risk and the governments that granted concessions, his latest end play won Mattei no gratitude in London or Washington...
Iraq is everything, the Lebanon nothing . . . The cold war, remember, has been nothing more nor less than an unremitting Soviet effort to upset the world balance of power . . . The balance of power in turn depends upon the outcome in the Middle East. And in the present circumstances, the outcome in the Middle East depends upon the outcome in Iraq. Most of the reasons for not taking action [in Iraq] are mere twaddle-Hammarskjold-twaddle, world opinion-twaddle, other kinds of twaddle...
...Democratic primary because he is well known from four unsuccessful statewide campaigns prior to his election to the Senate. But Yarborough forces have grown unaccountably edgy as the primary nears, are alibiing in advance that a man with Bill Blakley's money could even buy an upset...
...straightaway, Clem shot past favored Bold Ruler in the $83,400 Suburban Handicap at Belmont, headed for a fine upset finish. But ancient (42) Eddie Arcaro was aboard Bold Ruler, who was laboring under a whopping 134 pounds. Arcaro coaxed another ounce of will out of Bold Ruler, and the horse surged past Clem to win by a nose...