Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first encounter Gutman, a Crimson editor, remembers having with "Alonzo Purr" was when his parents bought it three years ago. Gutman says that at the time his parents were upset that he could not recall the numerous times they read the library book to him as a child. An effort to revive those memories of family reading sessions later drove them to purchase the book in an antique bookstore...
...addition to finishing its season away from home, Harvard faces stiff opposition in all three games. Yale, although not at the top of the Ivy standings, has the potential to play the role of the spoiler, as it showed earlier this season with a 74-72 overtime upset of Dartmouth...
...Simpson, Sen. Simpson's wife, cautioned against being oversensitive, but also said students have a right to feel upset...
...skaters loosened up against Finland, a team that, though lacking the depth of the U.S. or Canada, has enough talent to pull off an upset on any given night. With the U.S. up 2-1 in the second period, the fast Finnish forward Hanna-Riikka Nieminen tied the score with an unassisted shorthanded goal. But defenseman Tara Mounsey responded with a goal less than two minutes later, and the defense held on for a 4-2 win. Game 4 was a blowout--10-0 against Japan--as King (who had four goals last week) pulled a hat trick...
Canada has been harboring a grudge since 1966, when the two teams last met and the U.S. shocked its northern neighbor by winning the World Cup. Canadians began to rethink their national plan (More funding? A youth movement? Abandon NAFTA?), but what really upset them was learning that hardly anyone in the U.S. even knew about the contest. It's one thing to import Canadian NHL teams to southern U.S. cities, steal SCTV guys for SNL, infringe on fishing rights, but to beat them at their own sport? This could get ugly...