Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again and again. But again and again, Snyde stayed around. Snyde--blond, from Beacon Hill, via Concord Reformatory--I hated him. He stayed around, picking his nose, reading old Crime book reviews and playing those acid esoteric Mozart quartets when I wanted Fantasy in Flyland and Ravel to work upon her soul...
...words there is always the unmistakable feeling of the past, and one can't help feeling that here is a man viewing the tumult of the last decade as a man who looks upon his own funeral; a man whose life was swept away with a dead...
Foreign Minister Chen Yi notified foreigners that the 65-year-old father of the Red Chinese revolution--though keeping his big job as party chairman--will retire from the party presidency upon expiration of his term in January...
Khrushchev has superlative cause for worrying about the continued existence of West Berlin: it stands as a showcase outpost of freedom-a glowing symbol, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain, of successful allied policy and capitalist prosperity, a haven for thousands upon thousands of East German refugees in flight from the drab, despondent backdrop of Communist East Germany. West Berlin's symbolism is repeated on a much larger scale in Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic. To erase Western strength in Berlin would be a sure step toward weakening West Germany, and the Russians have never ceased trying...
...rain, clouds, soldiers bent upon...