Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declare war upon you-excuse me for using such an expression-in the peaceful field of trade . . . We are relentless in this, and it will prove the superiority of our system...
...boss, Menderes scoured cities and the smallest villages for votes, developed a highly effective way with a crowd. He promised civil liberties, an end to economic restrictions, free enterprise instead of the state-directed economy favored by Ataturk and his heirs. In 1950, in the scrupulously honest election insisted upon by aging President Ismet Inonu, the Democrats rode into power on a surprising landslide, winning 408 Assembly seats to the Republicans' 69. Celal Bayar, the elder statesman of the Democratic Party, replaced Inonu as President. Adnan Menderes became Premier of Turkey...
...Soviet Union's top tippler, Nikita Khrushchev, has turned upon one of his closest friends, John Barleycorn, according to Pravda. In Minsk for a pep talk to collective farmers, Khrushchev warmed to his subject by calling for a crackdown on moonshiners: "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the state, against society, and deserves punishment!" This brought him around to his distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio...
...York, Geologist William S. Carlson has done as well as any man could with what is probably the most frustrating job in U.S. education. His 42 assorted schools and divisions are scattered all over the state, and are mostly vocational institutions that are not supposed to intrude upon the work done by New York's private campuses. His trustees do not get along too well with the powerful state board of regents, and when Carlson released a report calling for a central campus to give the other campuses some sense of direction (TIME, Jan. 6), the trustees suddenly turned...
...find myself upon a constant downward slope