Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attracting urgently needed foreign exchange, Pinay was even prepared to let Frenchmen buy the bond with previously undeclared - and hence illegal - foreign currency holdings. "That law," explained Pinay blandly, "has never been enforced anyway." De Gaulle himself was hard at work on constitutional reform. Some details gradually leaked out. Upon a nation with an ingrained distrust of strong government, the general hoped to impose a President who could not only appoint Premiers without parliamentary approval but would also be empowered to dissolve Parliament at will. To balance still more the power of the popularly elected National Assembly, De Gaulle would...
...foot of Cleopatra's Needle, the 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, with a translation of the monument's hieroglyphics. For the occasion, DeMille recalled his urchin days in the wilds of the big city: "As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. I saw my first lion and tiger in the Central Park Zoo. I used to play ball in Times Square with my brother. Every 15 minutes or so we'd stop as the horse cars clanged...
...proud city-states of Italy, none was more arrogant or belligerent than Milan, the rich capital of Lombardy. The names of its militant warlords, the Visconti and the Sforza, sent chills down the spine of Italy. But in art, Milan has always been looked down upon as a poor cousin by such sophisticated citadels as Venice and Florence. Even today most tourists take a look at the towered Duomo (second largest cathedral in Italy), seek out the faded mural remains of The Last Supper (painted by an imported Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci) at Santa Maria delle Grazie, and hurry...
...party given by one of the Thirteen for Gestapo officers; it cost 25,000 zlotys. At the dregs of the ghetto, corruption was symbolized by the episode of a famished woman who stole a bagel, still enjoying a morsel while the blows of the bagel seller fell upon...
...Connor once spent two years near Boulogne with a French family before Mother was able to raise the money to fetch him back. A few years later he was handed over permanently to a guardian-an atheist who wanted "something, as we say, to 'lavish his love upon.' " O'Connor embraced "bohemianism. surrealism and D. H. Lawrence." Between a weakness for Communism, a yen for "snatches of Nietzsche," and the desire to be both "a Messiah" and a wolf, he turned into a fantastic "actor" who studied his various faces in the mirror and chose...