Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PARIS--France said to have joined Britain in warning to Italy. Threat of "full force of British and French arms" reported invoked in case of Fascist attempts to upset Mediterranean status...
Florida's civic fathers agreed that drainage had been overdone, nature's balance upset. They 1) named a permanent protective committee to look after Florida's wilderness in future, 2) prayed solemnly for rain...
Reporting Hitler's march into Czecho-Slovakia for a New York paper, he said that the Nazi move came as no surprise to foreign correspondents in Prague. "We had expected it for several months before it occurred, and the only reason the American papers seemed so upset about it is that they didn't follow their foreign correspondents...
When bespectacled, downright Republican Frank Dwight Fitzgerald upset pious Democrat Frank Murphy in Michigan's gubernatorial election last November, he dealt a sad blow to New Deal pride. After turning out the man who turned him out in 1936, Governor Fitzgerald set about undoing (mainly by budgetary starvation) much of Mr. Murphy's Little New Deal. Last week a prevailing virus gave a new turn to Michigan politics...
Strength already flowed back to him as he watched his Martini being mixed. The bartender slid the glass towards him, then drew it back and whistled between his teeth. "Say, you're a student, ain't you?" The question upset the proctor. He thought of the pile of unread books on his desk and nodded. "Too bad, too bad," the bartender commented sadly. "We can't serve drinks to students. Company rules, you know...