Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original German plan also had called for King Haakon's capture in his palace, where he would be persuaded to issue a quick proclamation of nonresistance. Failure in this particular did not upset the plan for one simple reason: surprise had been achieved. The Norwegians, trusting, law-abiding, were completely disorganized; and it was six days before the Allies were able to land even territorial troops at any point south of Narvik. In the interval Falkenhorst recovered from his one serious setback. When the Allied Fleet and planes finally got busy...
...pause for rest and "a mild digestive upset" (temperature: 100°) interrupted Thomas Edmund Dewey's second swing through the West last week. He holed up at Colorado Springs, where in the heady mountain air his entourage put out claims that he will have enough G. O. P. convention votes to nominate him for President on the first ballot. Democrat Jim Farley swigged tomato juice (his strongest tope) at a succession of Manhattan cocktail parties, let "friends" announce to the press that he also has first-ballot prospects (if Franklin Roosevelt does not run). Paul McNutt paraded through Guthrie...
...citizens' seven previous refusals, said he, were "based in some measure upon misinformation." Instead of a paltry $2,300,000, "the city would double its income" by selling the power itself. But in San Francisco the decision caused a crisis. Mayor Rossi, his gall bladder and budget both upset, from his sickbed talked of canceling pay raises for city employes, increasing the tax rate 28?. Citizeness Henrietta Wright, a publicity-shy lawyers' stenographer, sued P. G. & E. on behalf of the city for $75,000,000-about what P. G. & E. has grossed from Hetch Hetchy power...
...Tiger crew, riding high after its unexpected win over Navy two Saturdays ago, has turned into a real threat this season and will undoubtedly give the more experienced Crimson eight a tough battle all the way with a good chance of scoring an upset victory...
Reason the dealers are so upset is that they depend on the high (in most cases, two-dollar) prices charged for Red Seal Classical records to give them their profits, feeling that the jazz helps only slightly, and serves more as a "loss-leader" or traffic enticement. In other words, It's very hard to run a store on just jazz records alone, unless you have a tremendous volume of business. The dealers are afraid that people will but the lower-priced, lower-profit-making Black Label, and endanger their greatest source of profit...