Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Ben Hogan in 1955, the 1942 race between Alsab and Whirlaway, the Army-Navy football game of 1948 (Army 21, Navy 21), and in weeks to come, Ben Hogan's famed comeback, Jesse Owens' track feats at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Columbia's last-minute upset of an Army eleven in 1947. In all, it promises to be a summer show with winter vigor...
...questioned for about 20 hours before his arraignment, the court held that his oral and written confessions made during that period were inadmissible: "Circumstances may justify a brief delay . . . But the delay must not be of a nature to give opportunity for the extraction of a confession." fl Upset, on the bi.sis of its recent Smith Act and Watkins case decisions (TIME...
...accession of the new Conservative Prime Minister, who led his party to the most stunning electoral upset in Canada's history, ended 22 years of Liberal rule (TIME, June 17). It was also the fulfillment of a storybook promise. As a strong-willed boy of ten, he announced an ambition that shaped his life: "I'm going to be Premier of Canada...
Only three days after the Conservative Party's upset victory in Canada last week (see THE HEMISPHERE) one of the country's biggest magazines, Maclean's (circ. 516,587). came out with an editorial postmortem on the election results. "The mysterious and complicated and precious and precarious institution called democracy," argued fortnightly Maclean's, "once more has proved to be roughly as enthralling to the average voter as a case of fallen arches." Not until the second to last paragraph did the magazine reveal its own Achilles' heel. The doleful editorial had been written before...
...break in the stock market at the news of President Eisenhower's stomach upset last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) lasted no longer than the President's brief illness. The first sketchy reports touched off a brief, orderly selling wave: the Exchange ticker ran late, and stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 4.91 points in an hour. But when the White House issued a reassuring bulletin, stocks turned quickly around, made up all but a 1.87-point fraction of the day's loss, then climbed steadily higher on each successive day. At week...