Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...earlier, his wife Marshéle Carter Waddell and their three kids had noticed that everyday things like a whining vacuum cleaner could trigger his rages. Even his kids riled him. "I'd come back from stepping over corpses with their entrails hanging out, and my kids would be upset because their TiVo wasn't working," he recalls. Arriving home from one combat mission, Waddell insisted on sleeping with a gun under his pillow. Another night, he woke up from a nightmare with his fingers wrapped around his wife's throat, her face turning blue. Marsh...
...campaign has been particularly depressing for Irish fans, partly because it started out so promisingly. The team had won four of its first five games by mid-October, when it hoped for an upset against hated rival the University of Southern California in South Bend, Ind. On the day of the game, thousands of fans formed a receiving line and screamed as the players strolled through the gauntlet of cheers. "Goddam gifts to God!" shouted one supporter in unholy praise. "Probably be the best damn moment of their lives." The team's captain and quarterback, Jimmy Clausen, 22, of Thousand...
...Mohammed gesticulated vigorously to the translator in response. "My government has invited you here, and when you do these things we are very upset. If you find people who are doing these things, IEDs, bring them before me and I will be happy to have their heads cut off. You are here to protect the country...
...student (and former member of the Election Commission!) seems to be upset because he thought he was attending this meeting for deliberations. He complains that apparently everyone here has already "unanimously decided" to certify the election...
...Members of the government panel expected a backlash, but the magnitude of the public response was a revelation. "It's surprising to me not only the amount of reaction but the emotionality and the degree to which this has caused upset," says Dr. Diana Petitti, vice chair of the task force...