Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic merchant marine," bigger water development programs for the West, "a bold housing program," "jet-age" airport facilities, "courageous urban renewal," a mild antirackets labor law like Kennedy-Ives, outer-space exploration, "a consistent policy for Latin America," "bold, new, imaginative" foreign policies. He hinted at new attacks upon Administration hard-money policy ("We need to face up to the high interest rates which are slowing the needed growth of our economy"). Also on his target list in some form: Ezra Benson's farm policy, "which now costs 53? in federal subsidies for every dollar the farmer nets...
...Once upon a time, black women, in South Africa had an advantage over the men: they at least did not have to carry the pass which must be signed by some white authority every time a native changes jobs or stays in another town for more than 72 hours. Recently the government of Hendrik Verwoerd, going beyond the black regimentation of his predecessors, decided to enforce more strictly the rule that all South African women over 16 should carry passes. All told, 900,000 "reference books" had been issued, and though the campaign met with protests and occasional violence...
...time to pay our fines." Next day 248 more went on trial. But in spite of the government's efforts, the black women's campaign against carrying the hated pass seems only to be beginning. Ex-Chief Albert Luthuli, President General of the African National Congress, called upon men to join the resistance. "The men of South Africa," said he, "will not stand by and see their women suffer the indignities that they have experienced under the pass laws...
...Once upon a time, in the dank and gloomy castle of Monteloup in old Poitou, there lived an impecunious baron and his daughter Angélique, a wild and barefoot sprite who played, perhaps more than she should, with the peasant boy Nicholas. Looking to Angélique's beauty to save him from ruin, the baron betrothed her to the Comte de Peyrac de Morens, known as the Great Lame Devil of Languedoc, who was said to be so ugly that girls ran away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned...
...that Russians "were the next best things to God," Cronin's written opinions on the Soviets set a horde of censors on his mail and made him feel, at one point, that a trial for treason might be around the corner. "We Americans tend to like everyone, and once upon a time I used to take Russia lightly. That ended the day I found Klaus Fuchs and the boys had sold them the bomb...