Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Mrs. Doe had to have the same operation last week, Mr. Doe was understandably upset. He was sure that she was in for all the horror he had endured. But he was wrong...
...Crimson went down to the Bowl with the barest glimmerings of a chance for an upset; an upset that would have saved the season, that would have almost obscured the Virginia and Rutgers and Princeton debacles...
...management wanted to kill Chang, but Keeper Rietmann pleaded for mercy. Chang was spared. Until two weeks ago, he gave no more trouble. Then suddenly he became aggressive, even attacking Mandjullah. Again Hans Rietmann defended the animal. Chang, he said, was entering his bullhood and would be upset for a while. The chains that tied Chang during the night were reinforced; keepers were forbidden to enter the pit alone...
...find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove his wolfhound...
...Townsley, a former schoolmate and recent Harvard NROTC student, who is rated high among league competitors in this event. Other strong West Point threats are i the 50 and 100-yard freestyle (where Lamden's Eli training is reputed dangerous) and the breaststroke where Jack Van Fleet hopes to upset the highly-rated Hoelzer...