Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...when-when Hitler found his forces unable to undertake a direct assault last summer on Britain herself. The explanation has never been completely given, but it included as its chief ingredients the ability of the R. A. F. to inflict devastating punishment on German daylight bomb ers and to upset German preparations for invasion across the Channel...
...details (of germs, chemicals, etc.) 20 or more times finer than can be seen with optical microscopes (TIME, Oct. 28). Fortnight ago its beams cleared up another dark corner. In Rochester, tart, smart, British-born Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, head of research at Eastman Kodak Co., announced it had upset old notions of how silver is distributed in photographic films...
...Stay Hulse moved back to team with Gray, and Gordle McGrath and Bill Claflin in the line and Bob Gayer at goal were all new to the first team. While lacking the fundamental skills of their opponents, the 1940 Amateur Champions, the Horsemen out scrapped their elders and almost upset them...
...phrase, "fifth column," Martin Dies has earned himself an unenviable paragraph in H. L. Mencken, and a good many inches in the newspapers. His plea yesterday for an appropriation to continue his carte blanche investigations will irk neither the rouges nor the noirs so much as it will upset the sincere democrats in this country. If there is any one man today who symptomizes the tendency in a crisis period towards the rise of a vigilante spirit of hysteria, it is the Honorable Gentleman from Texas...
...Left grew stronger with armed CTM and peasants' militias it became lefter still. Cárdenas' fine dream began to tarnish. Workers started squabbling among themselves. The oil expropriations became a white elephant at home, upset Mexico's international relations. Chicanery as well as well-meaning incompetence shackled Cárdenas' visionary plans...