Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not seek to overturn it." In the same mood of conciliation, Prime Minister Macmillan noted, "We have of course no special pride of authorship which will make us stick obstinately to this or that detail of the plan. We shall certainly be flexible." Labor did not want to upset the mood by forcing the issue to a vote...
...share a kind of condominium with Britain was to freeze differences into a permanent mold, rather than to let them work themselves out. Perhaps for this reason, the Turks, though rejecting the plan, found it reconcilable with their cries of partition. The Greeks for the same reason were considerably upset. On Cyprus, Colonel Grivas issued a defiant leaflet distributed by boys on bicycles. It described Foot as a "Trojan horse" and the British plan as a "new monster." It told Foot: "Chew your plan and swallow it." But the Greek government of Constantine Karamanlis, though accused by the opposition...
...contest, Presidential Candidate Adolfo López Mateos rolled through Mexico City this week at the head of a giant parade of gaily decorated floats and charros (cowboys) on prancing horses. As they have since 1946, Mexicans will go to the polls next week and-barring an upset more sensational than Harry Truman's-elect the candidate of the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) to a six-year term...
...partisans of abstraction were equally upset. With U.S. abstract expressionist art shows now winning an international audience,-they feared that the U.S. at Brussels had been trapped into scattering its fire, was in danger of losing the initiative already gained. Art News Executive Editor Thomas B. Hess labeled the U.S. representation at the fair a comical scandal, lacking in seriousness. He called for an all-out showing of the serious abstract painters and sculptors who "in the past 15 years have exerted an international influence, from Japan to Rome...
...error in yesterday's CRIMSON caused a good deal of upset among returning parents in the Class of 1933, who read that "a nine year old son" had praised his rooming accommodations. The minimum age for admission to the Reunion is ten, which is the correct age (plus three months) of the lad who spoke so vociferously Monday night...