Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem at Unity House-and one of the worst in labor's history-was union corruption, especially in Jimmy Hoffa's racket-ridden Teamsters Brotherhood. Exposures by the Senate's McClellan Committee had tarnished organized labor's repute, slowed recruitment of union members, and forced upon A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany the painful job of expelling the Teamsters, the Bakery Workers and the Laundry Workers, thereby reducing the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s membership...
...Called upon the scandal-spotted Operating Engineers to reform...
...daily life. This tendency to be noncreedal and practical is precisely liberalism. There is an unintended but unmistakable liberalism in the popular religious books of the day. This liberal, nondenominational spirituality is all the more interesting because the authors are chiefly churchmen ... All of this urges a new task upon every modern religion...
...farm boy happens upon them, leads them back to the burrow where he and his deserted mother (Cara Williams) live. The woman helps them smash the chain, spends the night with Joker Jackson, and persuades him to flee with her while Cullen heads overland to hop a northbound freight. In a scene that would be the worst sort of corn if the script faltered, Curtis learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind...
Split Idol. Gage's last major adventure as a missionary was a bold and dramatic episode. With an Indian guide, armed companions and his "blackamoor" bodyguard, he walked into a deserted cave where ancient Indian deities were still worshiped. Coming upon a grim idol and ignoring its scowl, he ordered the idol removed. In church next Sunday, he preached on the text: "Thou shalt not have strange gods before me." At a suitable moment the friar produced the idol and had it chopped to pieces with an ax and burnt. Later the idolaters had Gage cudgeled, stabbed...