Word: upsetness
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...waved back." That's actually what happened. When he won his fourth medal that day, after setting three world records, Jesse was the hero of the whole Games. To everyone. Except for Hitler. The dictator looked almost unbeatable at the time, but Jesse's victories upset his theory about an Aryan master race. Jesse Owens was the greatest track athlete we have ever had. But he was also a great hero for everybody concerned. I'm proud to have been his friend...
Excerpted in the New Yorker three months before it was published as a book, biologist Rachel Carson's eloquent, rigorous attack on the overuse of DDT and other pesticides--she called them "elixirs of death"--had already upset the chemical industry. Velsicol, maker of two top bug killers, threatened to sue the book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, which stood firm but asked a toxicologist to recheck Carson's facts before it shipped Silent Spring to bookstores...
...year and six days after Harvard upset the Big Red in their double-overtime epic at Lake Placid’s historic 1980 Olympic Rink, the Crimson appeared headed for another upset of No. 2 Cornell, leading 2-1 with under a minute to play...
...have solved its second-half woes in the opening minutes after intermission, as it turned a one-goal halftime deficit into a 6-6 tie with 20 minutes remaining. But the Cardinal exploded for four goals—most of them in transition—to end any Harvard upset hopes...
...year and six days after Harvard upset the Big Red in their double-overtime epic at Lake Placid’s historic 1980 Olympic Rink, the Crimson appeared headed for another upset of No. 2 Cornell, leading 2-1 with under a minute to play...