Word: upset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sandinista headquarters, as the uneasy rumors of defeat hardened into certainty, several party officials violated the election-day ban on alcohol and generously sampled rum. On the other side of Managua, it was well past midnight before Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was finally convinced of her upset victory. As the news sank in, Chamorro's perpetually smiling face clouded with worry. Would the Sandinistas accept the people's verdict? Rising from her wheelchair and perching carefully to favor her right knee, broken in a fall in January, Chamorro gestured for silence among the 100 people gathered in her spacious living...
...President-elect was called to the telephone in her elegant home Monday night just as the guard at the front door admitted a visitor. On the line was Ronald Reagan. In the foyer was Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Both wanted to congratulate Violeta Chamorro on her stunning upset, though clearly Reagan was the happier of the two. With the charm and diplomacy bred by her patrician upbringing, Chamorro told Reagan that she would have to call him back. Then she turned and embraced the Sandinista chief...
James' slump allowed the steady Mueller to capture the Tigers' second consecutive Player of the Year honors, following Bob Scrabis, who won it last year. Mueller, who played a big role in Princeton's near-upset of Georgetown last March in the first round of the NCAA tournament, led the Tigers in scoring with 14 points per game, finishing eighth in the league...
Following the Harvard women's basketball team's65-64 upset of Dartmouth Tuesday, spoiling the BigGreen's perfect Ivy record and possibly knockingit out of contention for an NCAA tournament bid,the Crimson didn't have as much luck when theAll-Ivy awards were announced yesterday...
...Older physicians are really upset by the lossof autonomy. They are really upset aboutmalpractice insurance, and the huge increase inpaperwork," says Jessica A. Spira, a second-yearstudent at the Med school...