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Upset

The meaning of the word has sometimes been erroneously attributed to the surprising defeat of the horse Man o' War by the horse Upset (the loss was the only one in Man o' War's career); in fact, the term pre-dates that 1919 race by at least several decades.


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1973 Thomas Cup

In the European zone England was upset 4–5 by a solid West German squad that featured a world class singles player in Wolfgang Bochow who won both of his matches, as well as a world class doubles team in Roland Maywald and Willi Braun who won the last match of the tie to clinch the victory.

Al Groh

While Groh acknowledged that the year would be a rebuilding experience and a slow start upset some fans, Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage stated that, "Al will be our head coach" through at least the 2007 season.

Alexa Hepburn

She has become expert in transcription and has developed Gail Jefferson's basic system for transcribing talk to encompass phenomena associated with crying and upset (sobbing, sniffing, tremulous delivery).

Andrew Spano

Andrew J. Spano (born April 17, 1936) is a Democratic politician from the state of New York, who served as Westchester County Executive from 1998 until 2010, when he was defeated by challenger Rob Astorino in the November 2009 elections in a surprising upset.

Asian F

After Mike receives an "A−" on a chemistry exam, his father (Keong Sim) is upset by this "Asian F" and the danger it poses to his chances of attending Harvard, and insists that Mike focus more on his studies and give up glee club and his girlfriend Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz), who has been helping him improve his singing.

Bea Bielik

In the first round she defeated world number 148 Renata Voráčová of the Czech Republic in straight sets, 6-4 6-4, but the major upset came in the 2nd round, when she defeated comfortably Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn, who was a top 30 player at the time, 6-4 6-2.

Bharla Malwat Rakhtaana

Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan got upset with the Marathi remake of his 1988 classic and sent a Legal Notice to director Anup Jagdale.

Billy Bailey

He later appeared at the home of his foster sister, Sue Ann Coker, in Cheswold, Delaware, saying he was upset and was not going back to the Plummer House.

Billy Lyell

In February 2009, Lyell upset an undefeated and very popular John Duddy in a ten round fight by split decision.

Bottom 10

This spot is reserved for "the top BCS blunder of the week" – a normally strong football team which found itself on the wrong end of an upset the prior week; an example would be the September 7, 2011 Bottom 10, which featured Oregon State at the #5 ranking after its upset loss to Sacramento State, a Division I FCS program that had previously never beaten an FBS team in its history.

Brad Kearns

On the professional circuit Kearns upset world's #1 duathlete Ken Souza and world #1 ranked triathlete Scott Molina at the inaugural Desert Princess duathlon in November, 1986 as an unranked rookie professional.

Chinyere Ike Nwosu

As governor of Oyo State, he upset the power balance of the traditional rulers by making the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, permanent chairman of the Oyo State Council of Obas.

Dennis and Callahan

On June 2, 2005 Callahan upset some listeners during interviews with Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino and relief pitcher Mike Timlin discussing the upcoming visit of Carson Kressley and the cast from Queer Eye at Fenway Park.

FC Universitatea Cluj

Other episodes of this rivalry are: in 2005, upset that Universitatea was relegated in Divizia C, "U" fans injured CFR's players at Sport Hotel of Cluj-Napoca; in 2007, a CFR supporter was killed by 15 Universitatea's ultras; in 2008, following a derby, CFR won and obtained its first league title and Universitatea relegated in Liga II, but this match was preceded by a corruption scandal, because Steaua Bucureşti's owner, Gigi Becali offered to "U" staff 1 milion euro for defeating CFR.

Felix Grucci

In 2000, he was elected to Congress after Democratic incumbent Michael Forbes, who had switched from the Republican Party in 1999, was upset in the primary by his opponent, Regina Seltzer.

Golden Johnson

In 2006 he breathed new life into his career with an upset win over prospect Oscar Diaz, setting up a fight for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental Welterweight Championship against American Antonio Margarito.

Grace Blood

Grace is upset, and persuades him to compromise, and he agrees to let her stay at Roundview if she gets good marks in her AS Theatre Studies exam, a production of Twelfth Night.

Granger Laws

The laws, which upset major railroad companies, were a topic of much debate at the time and ended up leading to several important court cases, such as Munn v. Illinois and Wabash v. Illinois.

Gustav Adolph Techow

He was serving with Herman von Natzmer at the Berlin arsenal when the arsenal was stormed by the citizens of Berlin who were upset over revocation of the German constitution and the dissolution National Assembly.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

The phrase is misquoted in the 2002 television series Firefly in the series finale episode "Objects in Space" in which Adam Baldwin's character Jayne Cobb gets upset and says "Yeah and if wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak."

International Labor Union

The ILU was founded by members of the Workingmen's Party of the United States who were upset with the parties turn toward political action after the Newark convention of December, 1877.

Izzy and Moe

Upset at losing so much money and booze to the cops, Dutch lures the pair to where a large shipment of bourbon is being kept.

Jack Sugden

Jack was upset when Annie became engaged to Leonard Kempinski whom she had met on holiday but they reconciled before Annie and Leonard married in October.

Jesús Felipe Rodríguez

On October 19, 2007 Rodríguez upset the undefeated Omri Lowther, the bout was held at the Raley Field in West Sacramento, California.

Jonathan Crompton

Crompton led Tennessee to an upset win over the unranked and 3-2 Georgia Bulldogs and was named the AT&T National Player of the Week.

Joost Winnink

At the 1995 Eurocard Open, a Super 9 event, Winnink upset countryman and world number 21 Paul Haarhuis in straight sets, dropping just two games.

Juaquin Gallardo

In February 2007, Gallardo upset Lenin Arroyo to win the WBC Latino Light Welterweight Championship, the bout was held at the Miccosukee Indian Gaming Resort in Miami, Florida.

Jussier Formiga

This was followed up by an upset victory over Shinichi "BJ" Kojima via unanimous decision at Shooto - Revolutionary Exchanges 1: Undefeated.

Keston Bledman

On 7 July 2007, at the 2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in São Paulo, Brazil, he upset the Jamaican Yohan Blake in the 100 meters, finishing in 10.32 seconds (−1.1 m/s wind).

Leung Chen Nam

He caused an upset by defeating experienced German darts player Andree Welge 4–1 in the preliminary round, before being beaten 0–3 in sets in the first round by England's Kevin Painter.

Leyla Harding

Leyla takes an interest in David Metcalfe (Matthew Wolfenden), inviting him to a concert but he was sidetracked by his ex-girlfriend, Nicola De Souza (Nicola Wheeler), was upset, thinking her father was terminally ill.

Manele

Further plagiarism accusations surrounded a well known manele singer's "Supărat"("Upset") song which was proven by third parties to be plagiarized from a Croatian song (Umoran by Jasmin Stavros).

Matt Kelty

Kelty upset Allen County Commissioner Nelson Peters in the May 8, 2007, Republican primary election, setting a matchup against Democrat Tom Henry in the general election.

Pär Ericsson

In 2008 he spent a short time in Degerfors IF, prior to 2009 season he was close to signing for Örgryte IS; however he instead signed for local rival GAIS as bosman; this upset Carlstad United as they were only receiving about 200,000 SEK while Örgryte IS's bid was claimed to be at least twice as big.

Paul McHale

He gained the support of significant numbers of Democratic, Republican and Independent voters in the Lehigh Valley in the 1992 upset election when he defeated former Congressman Don Ritter.

Payton Jordan

Billy Mills' upset victory in the 10,000 meters in 1964, the legendary leap of 29’2-1/2 by Bob Beamon in the long jump, the (third and) fourth gold medal in the discus by Al Oerter, the 100 meters sprint world record of 9.9 seconds by Jim Hines, Tommie Smith’s gold medal win in the 200 meters in 19.8 seconds, and Lee Evans’ world record (43.8 seconds) in the 400 meters were among the many Olympic highlights achieved when Jordan was coach.

Pete Dexter

He began writing fiction after a life-changing 1981 incident in which a mob of locals in the neighborhood of Schuylkill, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column about a drug deal-gone-wrong murder, beat the writer severely.

Providence Stakes

She would upset Saratoga, a horse that had run second on occasion to the Fitzsimmons trained champion Nashua.

Saffy's Angel

Saffron finds out that she was adopted by Bill and Eve, after Saffron's mother, who is Eve's sister, is killed in a car crash and becomes deeply upset, despite being comforted by her family.

Sagaing Kingdom

Sawyun had been upset with the king's decision to appoint an adopted son Uzana I as crown prince over his own son.

Sallyanne Atkinson

She was eventually defeated in 1991 in a narrow upset election win by the virtually unknown Jim Soorley, who received preferences from the Greens candidate Drew Hutton.

Salmon Hater

Many people were surprised that the track reached number 26 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2002, and some fans of other bands were upset that Anderson and Spencer had influenced the poll.

Selucius Garfielde

Democrats upset by their two-term Delegate Isaac Stevens prevented his renomination at the party convention in 1861, opening the door for Garfielde to run as the Democratic candidate for the Thirty-seventh Congress.

Taken In

The mother is confused and upset by the band's presence, but the father (played by actor/comedian Richard Belzer), seeing that the children are enjoying the music, suggests that they let the band finish the song and then sort things out.

The Checks

He joins under the name of Tania, the name Patty Hearst took after she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army; upset, George says to the head cult cleaner, "Him you brainwashed?? What's he got that I don't have?!" and the cleaner simply shrugs his shoulders.

The Statesman

BBC reported that the Muslims were upset with The Statesman for reproducing Johann Hari's article "Why should I respect these oppressive religions?" from the UK's The Independent daily in its February edition.

Thomas W. L. Ashley

In the 1980 general election, Ashley lost in an upset to Republican challenger Ed Weber.

Todd Tiahrt

After only one term, he won the Republican nomination for the 4th Congressional District and was elected in an upset over 18-year Democratic incumbent Dan Glickman.

Zack Milkovich

Although John Otterman, and his father, Robert J. Otterman had held the Akron seat for years, Milkovich won an upset victory in the 2010 primary.

Zaurbek Baysangurov

In December 2008 he lost via an upset 5th round KO to former The Contender star Cornelius Bundrage.


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