Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Threw out the first ball for the new baseball season and watched Washington upset Boston 5-2; played his first spring golf on both Burning Tree and Gettysburg Golf courses; hooked five trout while fishing at Camp David...
...concert as a whole was not as good as some of its parts, owing to a curious method of programming which seemed calculated to upset with each piece the effect of the preceding work. But there was enough great music-making to more than compensate for this drawback...
Yesterday marked the return of Dale Junta to the line-up, but it wasn't the same Junta who sparked the upset of Presbyterian last year. Still suffering from a back injury, the big Californian was unable to cope with John Brownlow's powerful serve and generally strong game. Although Junta showed flashes of his old form, Brownlow played consistently and won fairly easily...
...hands on the object that signifies supreme success in his profession. It was a moment that most actors would give their profiles to experience, a scene that almost any imaginable entertainer would play to the echo. Alec showed up 25 minutes late. The hotel doorman was somewhat upset at the sight of the filthy old tramp with the messy whiskers, paint-smeared jacket, soiled green flannel shirt and cracked shoes, but Guinness was able to establish his identity and the fact that he had just stepped out of a scene in his new picture, a version of Joyce Gary...
...varsity's fine attack corps of Dub Mallonee, Jerry Pyle, Nick Lamont and Fran Loewald represents the Crimson's chief hope for an upset. Mallonee, in spite of his six-point outburst last Wednesday, can be quite erratic. If he is hot, the game may be very close; if he is not, Pyle, Lamont and Loewald will not be able to do it alone...