Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's second largest concentration of Jews, Democrats were delighted. Knowland's front-running opponent, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown, demanded that Knowland disown responsibility for use of the tract, drew only the surprisingly lame comment: "I don't think I'm called upon to agree or disagree with every piece of material that comes to my attention." All but lost in the uproar was Helen Knowland's plea that she had never known about Kamp's background-although any newspaper reader would remember his association with Gerald B. Winrod, Gerald L.K. Smith...
Justice Salmon was unimpressed. Said he: "You are a minute and insignificant section of the population who have brought shame upon the district in which you live, and have filled the whole nation with horror, indignation and disgust. Everyone, irrespective of the color of their skins, is entitled to walk through our streets in peace with their heads erect, and free from fear. That is a right which these courts will always unfailingly uphold...
...obscure the view through our windshields with suspended St. Christopher replicas to win the protection of a patron saint," said the Rev. Martin L. Goslin of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church, "but how much do we do for a moral frame of mind? Assuredly we are called upon . . . not necessarily to enjoin people to turn the other cheek, but more appropriately to turn the other fender...
...Once upon a time there were two Kerrs, Mama Kerr and Papa Kerr. (There were a lot of baby Kerrs too, but you can read all about them in Mama's best-seller.) One day, Mama Kerr said to Papa Kerr, "Walter, let us write a musical. A musical with lots of sentiment and lots of laughs and lots and lots of old-fashioned goodness...
Commenting upon the recent granting of a Republican charter to the Harvard Eisenhower Club, Dawson said, "this proves the purpose of the Eisenhower Club is to surpass the HYRC as the voice of Republicanism at Harvard...