Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army knows from experience that a man may be both healthy and intelligent without having what it takes to be a good soldier. Psychopaths in uniforms upset the routine of their units, not only make bad soldiers themselves but frequently make trouble with their saner companions. Such misfits could be weeded out in advance, but there are not enough psychiatrists...
...army of defense. Frontier forces were known to be along the borders of Russia, Italy and the Balkans. More were gathered in troop pools behind a scouting screen on Europe's west coast, lest Britain attempt a nuisance invasion of her own to upset Axis plans...
...Dorothy Leigh Sayers ("Lord Peter Wimsey") was even more vitriolic. "Suppose," said she, "that during the last century the churches had . . . denounced cheating with a quarter of the vehemence with which they denounced legalized adultery [i.e., divorce and remarriage]. But one was easy and the other was not. To upset legalized cheating, the church must tackle the Government in its very stronghold; while to cope with intellectual corruption she will have to affront all those who exploit it-the politician, the press, and the more influential part of her own congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition of morality...
...chitchat by the actors, this unpleasant poser is finally planted on the drooping shoulders of Thomas Mitchell, a golden-hearted old college professor whose days are numbered by heart disease. Along come a former star pupil (Jeffrey Lynn) and his pretty wife (Geraldine Fitzgerald) whose happy home has been upset by a prowling, pernicious femme fatale (Mona Maris). Mitchell tracks her down with such professorial precision, makes such painfully punctilious notes on her case that his conclusion that she is loaded with "greed, selfishness and brutality" will come as a surprise to no one. Nor will his eventual course...
...favored in both the 100 and 50. His partner, Carter, is almost as good and might conceivably get a pair of seconds in the sprints. Lonnie Stowell and Captain Frannie Powers will give him plenty of opposition in both of these races, however, Powers even has a chance to upset Schaper in the century...