Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what I did. Instead I talked to a couple of players and walked back alone across the river and sat upstairs in The Crimson sanctum. My editor came up and asked what had happened and I told him: the team had lost again, and the coach was still upset by last week's article...
...Harvard Coach Bill Cleary, who played on the 1960 U.S. goid-medal team, is not upset. In fact, he skips across the ice after the game and offers his congratulations to the Olympians...
...First Lady said. "It comes through that Don Regan doesn't really like me." At a lunch with Columnist Carl Rowan, Reagan played the angry husband. "I'll be damned if I just sit by and let them railroad my wife," he said. He noted that Nancy was upset for having caused the furor, but Reagan then told her, "No, honey, I brought all this down on you by taking this...
...have been bemused and upset by the University's tradition of holding graduation during the middle of the work week, rather than on a weekend, which is the custom at other institutions such Stanford, University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth. Harvard graduations fall on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; thus, the majority of relatives attending miss three or more days of work in order to see their loved one participate in the festivities. I doubt that they receive monetary compensation for those days of work they are forced to miss...
...moderate," nonconfrontational stand, are not taken seriously; in purporting to represent the students on such matters, the Council, as the official student representative, winds up diluting strong student sentiment. If it wants to be anything other than the butt of chocolate milk jokes, it needs to get some people upset--at least occasionally...