Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, where Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba has long been charged with giving aid and comfort to the Algerian rebels, Allard's report offered Premier Félix Gaillard an excellent opportunity to play upon France's touchy national pride -the kind of opportunity he invariably seizes when he finds himself in domestic political difficulties. Last week, little more than 24 hours after the attack, French Ambassador to Tunisia Georges Gorse appeared at the Tunisian Foreign Ministry with a stiff note of protest demanding the return of the four captured Frenchmen...
...began the portrait on June 16, 1851, when the princess was 26. She was a subject made to order for Ingres, who, French Poet Baudelaire noted, "depicts women as he sees them, for it would appear that he loves them too much to wish to change them; he fastens upon their slightest beauties with the keenness of a surgeon; he follows the gentlest sinuosities of their line with the humble devotion of a lover." The Princess de Broglie was not only a great beauty but a great lady, among whose descendants are some of France's leading critics, writers...
...mighty industry has come upon sick and precarious times. Our railroads are in a very serious condition." Thus last week did Florida's Senator George Smathers, chairman of the Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee, sound the keynote for a five-day public hearing in Washington. To the marble-pillared Senate caucus room he summoned a parade of more than two dozen railroad executives to describe what ails the railroads and suggest how to cure...
...Government controls that prevent the railroads from cutting their freight rates to competitive levels, thus letting much of their freight business go to trucks. Baltimore & Ohio President Howard E. Simpson argued that Congress should pass a law to permit transportation systems to cut rates "irrespective of the effect upon competing modes of transportation...
...person to bargain with her. He promised to repay all the money and drew up the draft of a document creating her Comtesse de Beauregard-she had bought the huge chateau and park near Paris bearing that name. "The duel over," says Author Maurois, "there was a reconciliation upon the field...