Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OUTNUMBERED nearly 2 to 1 in the 86th Congress, the Republican minority in the House of Representatives-as well as the embattled Eisenhower Administration -will lean heavily upon the political talents of the new G.O.P. floor leader, hard-hitting Charlie Halleck, 58, of Rensselaer, Ind. (pop. 5,000). Hoosier state professionals, players in as rough a practical political game as the country knows, rate curly-haired, paunchy Charlie Halleck a tough and ruthless performer, who has been often battered but never beaten in 35 years of office-holding. Old hands in the House, where he is a twelve-termer...
...what Anastas Mikoyan had to say boiled down to nothing. To prove it, the Kremlin at week's end put out a 21-page draft treaty proposing that 30 nations should get together to sign a German peace treaty based in part upon 1) withdrawal of Western Germany from NATO and Communist East Germany from the Warsaw Pact; 2) early withdrawal of all foreign troops-a plan that differed not much from a Russian plan that the U.S. had rejected as outrageous almost five years before. Amiably, Anastas Mikoyan added that, after all, bargaining is bargaining, so take...
Such was the suavity of the Soviet sucker play that it was only the crowds of Hungarians, impolitely waving placards at Mikoyan-MURDERER! MURDERER!, who seemed to appreciate the cold-war subtlety that defending specific places like Berlin can sometimes depend upon branding what or who is unacceptable as precisely that...
...organization. Originally it had been formed by the Bakongo tribe of the south as a sort of protective union against the harder-working and more favored Bangalas. But under the leadership of a slight, timid-looking but steel-willed fanatic named Joseph Kasavubu, 41, it gradually turned its anger upon bigger targets...
...unbalanced force acting on a body makes it accelerate in the direction of the force . . . When the engine burns out, the rocket continues upward under the control of Newton's first law: . . . A body in motion continues to move at constant speed in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. As it rises, it slows and curves because an unbalanced force, the earth's gravitation, keeps pulling at it in obedience to Newton's law of gravity: Each particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional...