Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Presidential distrust and operational embarrassments. However, for most of its existence, the CIA managed to attract some of the best and the brightest--people lured to the idea of defending democracy, collecting and analyzing intelligence that could prevent the next World War or preempting a Soviet maneuver that could upset the delicate power balance of the Cold War. Now, in this post-Cold War era, the CIA has another war to wage. This time its adversary is on its own soil and it looks quite different from Dr. Evil...
This exchange lingered with me for several days like a bad meal of enchiladas at the Winthrop House dining hall. It wasn't that I was upset about annoying the woman. I wasn't exactly mowing her down with my bicycle, so I don't think I was causing any harm. It was more the encounter itself. I like to think I possess at least some shred of clever, subtle wit in my marrow, and, "You're stupid," while displaying elegance in brevity, is not exactly a riposte worthy of Oscar Wilde...
...Harvard men's hockey team has upset Boston College in each of the past two seasons. The trifecta, however, won't be quite so stunning...
Without a doubt Harvard wants to beat B.C., it just won't be such an upset this time...
...thought it was sort of offensive and sad," Erickson said. "There were some union members standing there and they were pretty upset...