Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's Liberal Party, out of power since its upset defeat by the Conservatives last June, met in Ottawa lastweek to pick a new leader. The delegates' choice: Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, former Secretary of State for External Affairs and winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in creating the United Nations Emergency Force for the Middle East...
...said Johnson to the television men, who were still gasping after lugging their heavy gear up the stairs. They protested that one of their number had not yet arrived. "Well," snapped Johnson, "you take it and give it to him." Told that could not be done, Johnson was upset. "Now listen," he growled, "I told you to be ready." He had, in fact, given eight minutes' notice-which was quite a lot for a man whose breakneck energies had already turned the first week of the 85th Congress, Second Session, into a one-man show...
...Place. Libya was only an episode in a Mattei campaign that threatens to upset all the painfully negotiated agreements between Western oil companies and Arab governments in the Middle East. Mattei calls it a feud, and dates it from the day he applied for partnership in the international consortium that now runs the rich Iranian oilfields. "At the time," recalls Mattei, "E.N.I, had only two drilling rigs and no experience. The consortium laughed and denied me my place at the table...
GENERAL MIGUEL YDIGORAS FUENTES, 62, representative of the far right who riotously upset a try by followers of assassinated President Carlos Castillo Armas to put over a feeble successor in a quick and easy election last October. Although Ydi-goras' protesting street mobs reflected every hue in the political spectrum, his support comes from big plantation owners, industrialists and conservative Roman Catholics...
...conservative is particularly upset about this. He yearns for the bygone days when manners made the man, and the community was held together by shared values. All that is wrong in the world today he judges a product of the moral anarchy nurtured by the rejection of natural...