Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party to the Dardanelles convention was Germany, but Nazi authorities promptly hit the ceiling on reading the draft of the proposed Montreux pact, claimed that its concessions to Russia completely upset the balance of power. Germany claimed that before a war between Russia and Germany the Soviets would have plenty of time to move their Black Sea Fleet into the Mediterranean and around to the Baltic, thus getting an unfair headstart on the German Navy. Openly Nazis threatened to tear up their agreement to limit their fleet to 35% of the British Navy unless something was done about this contingency...
Cried Mr. Dionne: "My wife is glad this baby came alone. Elzire's babies should come one by one. Her normal life has been so upset and changed by the birth of the Quintuplets. My new son looks very much like the Quints, but he is much bigger (8 lb.). He's a fine healthy boy with brown eyes and dark hair. Elzire believes a child is the gift of God. The Ontario Government doesn't give her much credit for anything! She believes God intends her to endure the pains and she lets...
Once in the chair, Professor van Zeeland read to the Assembly an extremely long and conciliatory note from Italy most pleasing to Britain. It promised that Il Duce will not raise a great Ethiopian army of conscript blacks -the one thing Britain fears, since with it Italy might upset the balance of power in Africa-and concluded in Benito Mussolini's nearest approach to a dove-cooing vein: "Italy will consider it an honor to inform the League of Nations of the progress achieved in her work of civilizing Ethiopia. . . . Italy views this work as a sacred mission...
...Tithe Bill," as it is called by 300,000 English tithe-payers. Their loudly vocal organization at once announced that they will petition King Edward to refuse his signature-a refusal which would upset the whole British theory that the King must do as Parliament votes and the Cabinet advises...
...personal physician, Dr. Everett Colgate Jessup. They, the Morgan family and the 17 Morgan Partners feared false rumors. Junius Spencer Morgan acknowledged the report of his father's heart attack. But, declared he: "Reports of his being paralyzed are entirely erroneous. He has suffered a slight upset and doctors have prescribed a rest. The worst is over. He is rapidly getting better. ... I believe he will go abroad. He usually does so at this time of year anyway...