Word: upsetting
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...Staples on the corner of JFK and Winthrop St. doesn't seem like it would be a lightning rod for controversy. But somebody seems upset: Earlier this week, an unknown protester plastered the wall outside Staples' door and the stairs leading up to the office supply store with signs that declared, "This Staples doesn't recycle...
...Harvard students in the book checks into the Charles Hotel for a night when she is upset. Do you know anyone who has ever actually done that...
...more equal" relationship with Washington raised concerns that the DPJ might tinker with sensitive issues like the relocation of American military bases in Japan, affecting the two nations' longstanding security pact. But DPJ leaders, who have little experience in international diplomacy, know they can't afford to upset the alliance, the cornerstone of Japanese foreign policy...
...Dimbulah, a tiny tobacco-farming town, with no connection to his Chinese heritage. His grandparents emigrated from China in the 1880s, and his family was completely assimilated - he and his siblings spoke only English. At 6, after a white schoolmate called him "Ching Chong Chinaman," Yang went home upset and asked his mother if he was Chinese. She gravely told him yes. "I knew in that instant," Yang writes on his website, "that being Chinese was a terrible curse...
...Crimson coaching staff did have one major selling point that had nothing to do with academics—Harvard’s famous upset of Stanford during the opening round of the 1998 NCAA Tournament. The win remains the only time a 16-seed has ever defeated a one-seed in NCAA Tournament history...