Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, on Election Day, thousands of farmers decided either to vote Democratic or to stay home. In the normally Republican counties of rural Illinois, the vote fell 150,000 below 1944, 400,000 below 1940. In Indiana, rural returns almost upset Dewey's earlier lead. In Iowa, the farmers assured Harry Truman's victory...
...Communists everywhere, the upset meant a frenzied scramble for a new pitch. The Moscow radio clapped a hand over its own mouth for more than 24 hours. Excited Communists in Frankfurt tacked up a candid sign on the door to their conference room: "Meeting scheduled for today has been postponed because of Truman's election." Explained a harassed party official: "We have suspended scheduled activities for today, awaiting new orders...
...York Star's Jennings Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden City (Kans.) Telegram (circ. 5,238), Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife is a Democratic national committeewoman...
According to the terms of the proposed agreement, all three gentlemen will sit down to a meal and whoever loses foots the bill. The local due are convinced they can upset Yale's answer to Man-mountain Dean because they boast palates "conditioned by copious amounts of Army chow, Southern barbeque, and Cambridge beans...
...flush of triumph. The Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in proclaiming victory just before the Dewey telegram, opened his statement by acknowledging that the largest share in the results belonged to organized labor. While a more detached view will reveal that other factors were operative in producing the upset, labor leaders did work hard in the campaign and will not be bashful in claiming credit...