Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viewing this kind of against-the-tide price inflation (TIME, Jan. 6) as a serious danger sign, the President pledged the Administration to promote price stability. But he also called upon business and labor to show restraint in using their power to force up prices and wages. Price boosts unjustified by cost increases can curb demand. Wage boosts unjustified by productivity increases can push prices upward, slow down economic recovery...
...Iron Grip. In the new cold war struggle, said Dulles, the strengths of Communism are bound up in its iron grip upon nearly 1 billion people, enabling Communism to squeeze the great bulk of its resources into armaments and political-economic offensives. But the weaknesses of Communism are also bound up in that iron grip, above all in the restless demand of subject peoples for freedom of thought and freedom to buy more consumer goods. This is why the U.S. has been trying to base its cold war policies upon 1) "everpresent and ever-alert retaliatory power to deter Soviet...
...Franklin Roosevelt's day, Press Secretary Steve Early could do little but wring his hands at the sight of braintrusters passing secret papers to press pets-a sight as familiar as the White House flagpole), Hagerty discourages contacts between correspondents and other White House sources. His standard reaction upon spying a leaked story in a newspaper is a wounded-bear yell: "Good God! Where do they get it? Where do they...
...toward the huddled Klansmen, yelling old war cries, firing into the dark night and at auto tires. Most of the Klansmen dropped their guns and made for their cars in fright. The Indians kept coming (one proudly wore a traditional feathered headdress marked SOUVENIR OF CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.), burst upon the public-address system, tore it apart, grabbed the emblazoned Klan banner...
...know of tentative acceptance before the University's May notification date. Members of the Admissions Office staff hold conferences with some school principals, and, after considering interviews, class rankings, and Scholastic Aptitude Tests, give the school headmasters and principals some indication of an applicant's chances for admission, contingent upon consistent good work for the rest of the year...