Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...could rush out after contracts for war goods, and upset our general business world. We could do that very easily, but it would only mean a lag in total production. It is better to follow a plan...
...under the protective wing of Coach Hudson, promptly got into a fuss with the tennis brass hats (for walking out of a tournament), was dropped from the Davis Cup squad. In mid-season he severed relations with his coach, reportedly on advice of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Upset by the ensuing publicity when Hudson threatened to sue the U. S. L. T. A. for alienation of affections, Kovacs was no great shakes in his first tour of the big-time circuit. Last summer, bothered by a tennis elbow, he did not compete in the important Eastern tournaments...
...with a crackdown. He ordered the arrest of Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the Congress Party's violent left wing and fiercest challenger of the war effort for Britain. Long a thorn not only in Britain's but also in Gandhi's side (since his precipitousness upset many patient Gandhi plans), Subhas Bose is used to suppression. He has been interned no less than eleven times. Chubby, sickly, stubborn as an untrained elephant, and India's radical leader, Bose was elected president of the Congress Party in 1939, only to be ousted after a few months...
...Mary Lamb became a devout Mohammedan. Even then her nerves were high-strung: she was much upset when her Grandmother Field remained an Unbeliever. But Mary soon found a new interest: from the names on gravestones she began teaching her younger brother, Charles, the future author of the Essays of Elia, his letters...
This display upset the leading actor and the stage managers so much that Göring pursued Daladier, begging him to return. The Bull of the Camargue snorted, refused to come back until Hitler would be reasonable. Daladier returned to Paris with a new sense of power, and the resolve to rally his nation. Tactics which the Allies then belatedly began to fight: 1) Whispering campaigns. A relativly few hired whisperers could start - and also stop - on orders from Berlin, waves of defeatist rumors and false news which swept French society. In 1939 the French Government knew enough to take...