Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This left the match up to Harris and Junta, and when they dropped the first set, 6-3, to Moore and Meyer, the prospects of a Yale upset became eminent. However, Harris' beautiful return of serve and fine net play and Junta's crushing service started to coordinate together, and the Crimson duo proceeded to annihilate the Yale pair, 6-3, 6-1, in the final two sets...
South Africa's bootleg native drink, skokiaan (subject of a recent U.S. hit tune), is usually mixed by "skokiaan queens" who know how to spike it with enough methyl alcohol to provide the jolt that thrills but does not kill. The balance is so easily upset that natives often go mad or blind from the skokiaan they buy in the shebeens of the native quarters...
...teacher-and he frequently does-he may put a thumbtack on her chair. "However, when he is resisting some task such as learning the complications of English grammar and strenuously feels that he 'won't need to know these in life,' he is only further upset by a teacher who agrees with him. At that very moment he is almost begging for authority, an authority that says . . . that there are certain things you have to do in life whether you like it or not." Thirteen is a man of conscience, and though there are many doubters...
Against Williams the varsity ran into difficulty in most of the matches, but managed to put out with a large over all margin. The only Crimson loss came at first singles where Dale Junta, playing badly in the strong cross winds, was upset by Wally Jensen...
With Struik's indictment on invalid grounds about to be dismissed, M.I.T.'s basis for continuing his suspension will be upset. The Institute must either hire him now that his case is settled, as implied by the conditions of its original suspension decree, or fire him on new grounds. In fairness, his suspension cannot be continued pending expected appeals of the invalidating decisions, for the only three alternatives open to anti-Struik zealots seem doomed to failure from the start...