Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President moved on beyond Bul-ganin's propaganda-rattling to call upon the U.S.S.R., as he had in his State of the Union message, for works as well as words. Specifically...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16--President Eisenhower called upon Congress today for authority to reduce price supports and to ease production controls on major crops...
...upon row, people leaned forward to catch every word, feverishly scribbling in their notebooks. The mesmerizing drone of the theologian lifted them, trance-like, beyond the everyday world of corporeal men and concrete things. It carried them high, high into the tenuous stratosphere of abstraction, where the earth below could be glimpsed only briefly and dimly, as the ponderous metaphysical clouds parted for a moment, then coalesced in still thicker obscurity. Through the shadowy haze, however, they could sense the mammoth struggles that the voice affirmed were raging all around them. From far off they could sometimes catch the sound...
Crimson coach John Yovicsin said the new conversion rule "will take the routine out of the point after. It will depend upon how the game is going whether coaches will go for the two points or for the kick...
...Colonial Office the road he favored. Best guess as to Sir Hugh's recommendations: immediate talks either in Cyprus or London with Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot community whom the British still refused to allow to return to Cyprus. Object of the talks: to agree upon a set period of self-government for Cyprus, after which the Greek majority (80%) of the island's inhabitants could decide in favor of union (enosis) with Greece if they still wanted...