Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election day thousands of impoverished, illiterate industrial workers and underpaid, overworked pampinos from the nitrate fields in the north, cast their ballots for Candidate Aquirre. Result was an upset to the hacendados, confident of victory. Aquirre defeated Ross by a narrow margin of 4,000 votes...
...fighting Eliot team almost upset Kirkland's apple cart, when it forged down to the Deacon two yard line in the final stanza, but was unable to score. A double pass play beginning on the Eliot 40 when Don Brew tested a long one to wing Bill Eyler, was stretched out down to the Kirkland ten on a sweet lateral from Eyler to Johnny Grant...
Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the commission which prorates Texas oil production, last week went to Hyde Park to tell Franklin Roosevelt how confused the industry is: though crude oil production is adequately controlled by the Interstate Oil Compact, lack of control over refining has upset crude prices (TIME, Oct. 24). Saying he was against Government control, Mr. Roosevelt suggested extending the compact to refiners, offered to ask Congress to approve such an extension. As Colonel Thompson took this thought back to the mid-continent oil fields, the industry bitterly noted that the previous day the Anti-Monopoly Committee...
...South Bend, old Bob Zuppke's Illinois team, which upset Indiana University's championship dreams fortnight ago, kept 45,000 fans on edge before finally surrendering to undefeated Notre Dame...
...giant-killing crowd of basketball players from Adams who slew the Deacons 7-6 by putting on the finest aerial attack ever seen in intra-mural football. The once-beaten, once tied 'Coasters completed pass after pass against a helpless Kirkland defense. Another surprise result, dimmed by the Deacon upset, was Lowell's last-ditch win over Eliot...