Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Business Machines Co. President Thomas Watson Jr., toured the IBM plant at San Jose, watched a thinking man's brain as it chattered through its electronic paces, lined up for lunch in the company cafeteria. There, for the first time he uttered a telling sentence that upset a hoary party line: "We want to have friendship with the American people and the American Government-and I draw no line of distinction between the people and the Government of the United States...
...discomfited to announce that the government intended to review Britain's companies act to see whether regulations against speculative operations such as Jasper's should be tightened. Exuberantly, Hugh Gaitskell compared Britain's mood to that of 1945, when Labor's Clement Attlee scored an upset victory over Winston Churchill. And from the marginal constituencies, one Labor campaigner after another reported that if it were not for the polls, which still showed a strong though diminished Tory lead, he would predict a Labor victory...
...armed satellites keeping watch on the earth. J.P.L.'s emphasis is on reliability, but sometimes one of its shots misbehaves. Then it issues no cheer ful announcement explaining how the failure was really a useful success. "It didn't work," say J.P.L. men, candidly. "We are upset about...
Experience and depth and skill are all necessary for a top flight team, and the Crimson backfield is blessed with all of these. Ravenel, whose unorthodox play calling has upset many opponents, and left halfback Chet Boulris, who gained 886 yards last year, provide a dangerous pass-run combination...
...this stage of the season. The squad is never really "up" for contests with non-Ivy schools, but a defeat by one of its non-League opponents can send team spirit dropping. Amherst has always been a tough opponent, and the Lord Jeffs will be aiming for another upset today...