Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...aside, who are we trying to punish this summer, the supreme athletes or the supreme Soviet? The recent award bestowed upon the U.S. Olympic hockey team by the American Institute for Public Service (Secretary of State emeritus Cyrus Vance also got one) was richly-deserved; the enormity of the upset and its subsequent effect on national spirit cannot be exaggerated. Who can forget captain Mike Eruzione saying, "Good luck to you, Mr. President...
...that talks resume among the three negotiators: Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, Israeli Interior Minister Yosef Burg, and U.S. Special Envoy Sol Linowitz. Sadat still had plenty of misgivings about the Israelis, and he demanded last week that they stop setting "preconditions or faits accomplis." Translation: he remained upset about Israeli demands that the future of Jerusalem should not be discussed, and angry that the Israelis were forging ahead with plans for more Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But Sadat is also convinced that his best hope for an eventual peace settlement lies in a Carter...
...post as odds-on favorites; only twelve have come home winners. Last year Coastal blasted out of the field to crush Spectacular Bid's try for the Triple Crown; in 1961, Carry Back was whipped by Sherluck, which paid $130.10 on a $2 bet, the longest upset odds in Triple Crown history. The 1980 Belmont was to prove the same, as Temperence Hill put on a rousing stretch run to sail to the wire two lengths ahead of Genuine Risk. The Loblolly Farm colt returned...
...these kids today are the product of the time when people thought forcing blacks to learn English was unfair. Just let them speak black English and 'kinda let them do their thing' was the way it went. So they can't read. Parents are awfully upset. But when I call them to suggest they enroll their kids in remedial work, a lot of them are not interested. They just don't want to face the problem...
...Dubus' stories turn on overt violence; anguish sometimes comes through less dramatic but equally effective means. Of these, the most common are infidelity and divorce. It is hard to tell who suffers more, the wandering parents or their children. Delivering follows two thoroughly upset brothers on their newspaper route the morning after their mother and father noisily called it quits. In the title novella, Finding a Girl in America, Dubus picks up the saga of Hank Allison that he began in two earlier volumes of stories. Experiments in consensual philandering ultimately broke up the Allison marriage. Now Hank...