Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action Washington and London have taken can stabilize the Middle East, objective eyes will look less critically upon it. Then the real test will come-the task of convincing the peoples of the area that the West can and will help them to attain legitimate aspirations...
...appeals for help from supporters like Lebanon, to watch unmoved as friendly statesmen are mobbed and countries like Iraq are convulsed, to make no effort to reassure other friends in trouble like the Jordanians would be to abdicate the role that history and our wealth and energy have thrust upon...
Iraq is everything, the Lebanon nothing . . . The cold war, remember, has been nothing more nor less than an unremitting Soviet effort to upset the world balance of power . . . The balance of power in turn depends upon the outcome in the Middle East. And in the present circumstances, the outcome in the Middle East depends upon the outcome in Iraq. Most of the reasons for not taking action [in Iraq] are mere twaddle-Hammarskjold-twaddle, world opinion-twaddle, other kinds of twaddle...
Throughout our history one of the great strengths of the United States in the world has been that it could depend upon the support that lies in the decent opinion of mankind. Today we are plainly in danger of losing esteem...
...critique on her big moment from a clarion-voiced observer: "Afterwards Sir Winston Churchill said I had made a very remarkable performance-but he would only speak to me in the lobby, not in the House. He said: 'When you entered, I felt you had come upon me in my bath and I'd nothing to protect myself with but the sponge...