Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loos and the Benevolent men were upset over the Transit Authority's fact-finding committee, a panel which recently decided that all subway operators belong in the same union. This, reasoned Loos, sold out Benevolent to Mike Quill and the bigger, well-primed Transit Workers...
Less prolonged, but a case in point, was the last illness of Warren Harding, who lay disabled for five days in San Francisco's Palace Hotel before he died. Harding's attack was diagnosed at first as a stomach upset, was later complicated by bronchopneumonia. But after his death attending physicians, including Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur (sometime president of the A.M.A., president of Stanford University and later Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior) reported: "We all believe he died from apoplexy or the rupture of a blood vessel in the axis of the brain near...
...News Analyst James Marlow protested, the White House "first gave wrong information or only part of the truth and let it stand for hours." Last week's initial diagnosis of a "chill" was in force 16 hours longer than the announcements of "digestive upset" that preceded disclosure of Ike's heart attack in 1955 and last year's ileitis. But on both previous occasions Press Secretary Jim Hagerty made swift amends with a discursive, detailed flow of information on the President's progress. When Ike was stricken last week, Hagerty was in Paris...
...went all through the game at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium. The ornery Middies even upset the odds makers. They were picked by the bettors to win by six points. But they swamped the Army 14-0, and they did the job so thoroughly that the final score was an understatement...
Elsewhere, other teams edged toward the end of an upset-ridden season: ¶ A last-period pass bounced off two Notre Dame defenders before Iowa End Don Norton finally caught it and beat the Irish...