Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet trade-plus-aid approach as ambassador to India, Envoy Menshikov, 55, is conspicuously suited to the Kremlin's peaceful-coexistence line. In black-and-white contrast to his dour, clam-mouthed predecessor, Georgy Zarubin, he flashes a wide and easy smile, spouts friendly sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice President Nixon and half a dozen State Department officials, stepped out in top hat and tails for the formal White House dinner for diplomats...
...partnership was hard-headedly based on economic necessity rather than evangelizing zeal. The Africans were not reassured. Declared George Nyandoro, secretary-general of the African National Congress in Southern Rhodesia: "Whitehead is a status quo man. A government led by Whitehead would only make concessions when concessions were forced upon it. The Africans will have to do the forcing...
Farrell tried to get comfortable in a seat like a combination dentist's chair and toilet seat. He wore dark glasses, because bright light beat continuously upon him for the still camera (taking a picture every 75 seconds) and the television camera transmitting uninterruptedly by closed circuit to a nearby viewing room. Electrodes were taped to Farrell's arm and chest: he plugged in the leads so that doctors from the Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine could keep watch on his pulse and breathing...
...current National Jewish Monthly. Jewish emphasis on family life would be a firm foundation in "the contemporary quagmire of sex and family relations." Jewish internationalism would be a potent palliative for the excesses of nationalism. And many a non-Jew would welcome Judaism's "uncompromising insistence . . . upon the unity of God, its realistic yet hopeful view of the nature of man, its refusal to accept a dichotomy between body and spirit, its de-emphasis of miracle and dogma, its optimistic view, rooted in the Prophets, of human history as culminating in the Messianic...
...affairs not directly connected with national defense must be conducted in the open," he said. "I disagree. For it is only behind closed doors that most politicians -yea, even statesmen-honestly express their views and try to get at the meat of the question ... No sound policy is decided upon without frank exchange of views. And a frank exchange of views is rarely reached with the press looking over the shoulders of the policymakers...