Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chewing gum and ran off the third, 6-1. After the ten-minute rest, he still seemed the more confident of the two. When he led at 5-2, it looked as if he had the match well in hand. Then a footfault judge called a point against Wood. Upset, he double-faulted at game point. He played carelessly and lost another game on McGrath's service. His confidence by now completely shaken, he dropped his own serve to make the score 5-all. Both men won their serves until the score was 7-8 on Wood...
...Monday's violence was sporadic, minor?a few bricks heaved, a few trucks upset, some creosote bombs tossed through windows in Oakland. By nightfall Harry Bridges was easing his grip. On order of the Public Utilities Commission municipal streetcars began running again, with the strike committee's full assent. Picket lines made no move to stop police-guarded food trucks coming in from nearby farms. The strike committee announced full resumption of bakery, milk and ice deliveries. Citizens heard that the committee was planning to let all restaurants open next morning. But all liquor sales were banned "during the emergency...
...Litvinoff of the Eastern Locarno had warned him that, should he refuse to put pressure on Germany, they were ready to protect themselves by signing a mutual pact of military alliance. Since France and Russia possess the two largest armies in the world such an alliance would gravely upset Europe's balance of power, the one thing British diplomacy always strives...
Significance. Officials in the U. S. Treasury were not at all upset to see Government bonds go to a yield of less than 3%. It meant that in spite of the topheavy public debt, the Government can still go on borrowing the New Deal's pocket money easily and cheaply. To be sure, if investors take confidence and start once more to invest in industry, the great surplus of investable cash will subside and Government bond prices will sink. But this possibility would please the Treasury even more, for relief expenses would fall, the Government would spend less...
...were fired here. Men were conscripted to fight for the Austrians and they came home to find themselves Jugoslavs. So much the better! I never thought that that young student Princip sipping his coffee in my café would throw Kings and Emperors and Sultans off their thrones and upset the World by two pistol shots...