Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever-increasing number of motorists are becoming thoroughly fed up with the overweighted, undersprung, swerving, swaying, tire-screeching, chrome-splashed, trinket-laden, gas-eating monsters that Detroit has been forcing upon the American public...
Regarding your "Law Day" article: I hope that by such a celebration, perhaps some of the principles of law and justice may be re-introduced to that mass of human leeches masquerading as lawyers who feed upon the common man by twisting, distorting, thwarting and negating...
...occurred in the same week, and last week was another time of reverberating violence -in Algiers, Paris, Caracas, Beirut. Mobs stoned the Vice President of the U.S. on one continent, burned U.S. Information Agency libraries on two others. Some of the events were clearly foreseeable; others could be seized upon. Some could be planned: a new Sputnik went up in Russia in time to impress a visiting Nasser. In Algiers ambitious men leaped to a balcony to power events, and in France General Charles de Gaulle, who last controlled events to restore the French Republic after World War II, dramatically...
...looming 1959 deficit, said Stans, compels the Administration to "look critically at each one of the additional expenditure proposals being urged upon us." And a little elementary arithmetic shows that it will also compel the Administration to ask for another boost in the federal debt ceiling, which Congress reluctantly upped from $275 billion to $280 billion only three months...
...national radio network broke into a musical program to flash the message. A special edition of France Soir, the nation's largest evening paper, disappeared from the newsstands like birdseed scattered before a flock of starlings. In near panic, Speaker Andre Le Troquer of the National Assembly called upon all Deputies who were out of town to return to Paris at once...