Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whenever economic pressures increase. As the food shortage grows more serious in Rome, also do the "victory songs" grow louder and Italian medicinemen beat the tom-toms of hate and self-adulation with increasing gusto. Mussolini is faced with increased living costs, an unbalanced budget, a shortage and an upset foreign trade, and he has realized that only by playing on the passions of his Latin populace can he divert its minds from dwelling upon its economic position or physical sufferings...
...That has nothing whatever to do with it," snapped the Briton. "Smuggling from Hongkong is almost entirely conducted by Chinese of a low order, while North China's financial and economic status is being upset by Japanese and Koreans...
Backstage Toscanini quickly recovered. Not really blinded, he had been dazed, upset, enraged. Cameramen have long been requested not to use flashlights near the Maestro's weak eyes. The request was disregarded when he arrived in the U. S. last January. Last week the shock was greater because he was under a heavier strain. After his next-to-last concert when the audience stood cheering him for 15 minutes, Toscanini had shut himself up in his dressing-room and wept...
...Onto a platform at Philadelphia's Temple University climbed Oswald Garrison Villard, oldtime editor of the Nation, to deliver a ringing peace message. Into the meeting charged a flying wedge of unsympathetic Temple athletes who pelted the demonstrators with lemons and vegetables, triumphantly upset the speakers' platform...
...antlike Manhattan broker finds his Russian wife's family a strangely charming incubus; upset and then educated by their grasshopper example, he discovers how much he loves his wife...