Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential inability, heard a proposal from then Attorney General Herbert Brownell for a constitutional amendment that would spell out the mechanics of certification: 1) the President could declare himself in writing unable to discharge his powers and duties and surrender them to the Vice President, 2) the Vice President, upon receiving approval in writing from a majority of the Cabinet, could pronounce the Chief Executive incapable of fulfilling his obligations adequately and would become Acting President until the President recovered. The House subcommittee listened, referred the problem to the full Judiciary Committee, where it is still pending...
Code & Flares. All such tricks and more have long been familiar to every military nation, and many cycles of subtlety have been built upon them. Modern radars change their frequencies quickly and also change the length and shape of the pulses they send out. This amounts to a sort of code that the enemy must break, and often he has no time to do it. If he is attacked by a radar-guided missile, he may have only a few seconds to mimic its voice and prompt it to swerve aside into empty...
...part of a memorable tribe. There is the well-meaning, property-loving, family-exploiting, sympathy-maneuvering mother. There is the lusty ruin of a father, with a heroic gift for drink and denunciation, and a sense of values for all his violences. There is Eugene's snappish, put-upon sister; there is his protective brother Ben, who, as in the novel, is more notable dying than when alive. The Gants' tumultuous strifes and set-tos constantly startle and sometimes even rout the genteel, almost ghostly boarders...
...Repetto, 6 ft. 1 in. sophomore guard, added seven points to the team's total. Coach Floyd Wilson frequently drew upon his reserves, and Griff McClellan and Chuck Wolle scored six points each. Mike Donohue also entered the scoring column with four points...
...less than a week since 225 members of Adams House had signed a petition requesting the adoption of measures to increase the safety of the area. Councilman Alfred Velucci commented upon that occasion that he did not care to assist Harvard students, since few of them had voted...