Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...close of the memorial service, all 243 foreign dignitaries filed past an urn containing Ohira's ashes. Each made a low, formal bow, the traditional Japanese gesture of respect, except Carter, who barely nodded his head. But the Japanese, not expecting a newcomer to follow protocol, were not upset by Carter's performance. Later, however, Carter clearly startled Ohira's widow with a display of American informality while paying a call on her. He greeted her with a kiss, then slipped his arm around her waist when leading her into the Ohira family home...
They drive the reporter back to the scene of the crime, a wood-siding townhouse in a complex dotted with speedbumps. Turned out sniper wasn't quiet the word. A young man, upset that his girl was seeing another man, roared up to the door in his snub-nosed car, pulled out a rifle, and threatened to blow away not only the new boyfriend but the old girlfriend as well...
...they cheered the lifeguard when he ordered the American to return to the court. The next day papers stuck on him, not for the first time, the worst of tennis epithets: "Brat." Even Mr. Connors, who probably tortures insects in his spare time, informed Mr. McEnroe that he was upset. "Shut your mouth and play," he advised. It seems tennis players, like everyone else from Westchester, are supposed to be well-behaved. Confronted with raw broccoli hors d'oeuvres, it is regarded as impolite to make faces...
...endured a series of heart-stopping brushes with bankruptcy over the past year, but last week's was the most perilous and protracted. A tiny group of Chrysler's far-flung lenders in such places as North Little Rock, Ark., and Fort Wayne, Ind., threatened to upset the automaker's carefully arranged $1.5 billion federal loan guarantee package and cause the company's financial collapse. Said a top Michigan bank official in the middle of the fray: "For the first time, some of the responsible guys are talking about what they...
...short while. "You could argue that I made things worse for the inmates," he says, "lighting a candle to have it blown out. As people said, start a band, then they want dances. Let 'em out of their cells, they want out of prison." But ultimately the reforms upset the politicians and exposed the system." As Murton says, smiling, "It worked. That's why it failed...