Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity for Democrats, they were also a source of deep concern ito many Republicans and other Administration friends. Said Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, a member of the Armed Services Committee: "Let the Administration shake off its complacency and act." Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper called upon the Administration to face ihe "harsh reality'' of Soviet progress: "If there have been faults in the organization of our missile program (see box opposite), or if arbitrary spending limits have been imposed, it is imperative that we correct them immediately and make a maximum effort." Said former...
...brandied sauce) the President of the U.S., wearing the ribbon and medal of Britain's Order of Merit, rose to toast the Queen. "There have been a few times in my life," said Dwight Eisenhower, "when I have wished that the gift of eloquence might have been conferred upon me. This evening is one of those times . . . Each of us would like to say what we know is in America's heart: welcome to our distinguished royal couple that have come to us. English-speaking people march forward together, to stand steadfast behind the principles that have made...
...Laurel exercises a firm control over the rich congressional pork barrel. Last July President Garcia "released" some $10 million of public funds to dole-hungry Nacionalista Congressmen, and he has promised another $60 million. Much of this money goes through Laurel's hands. But José is frowned upon by the church; he has an unsavory reputation as a hard drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs, where he has an irritable habit of picking on customers whose looks displease him. His victims are particularly annoyed by the fact that Laurel's bodyguards protect him from justifiable retaliation...
Although the Council thought that groups, upon admitting girls, should change their titles to include the word "Radcliffe," it was suggested that organizations whose names have a "historical tradition" might be able to petition to retain their original names...
They further taught us that the United States was unable to bring Japan to her knees and called upon Russia for help, whereupon the Red Army promptly brought about a surrender by crushing the Japanese Kuantung Army of a million men in Mongolia. The first American Atomic bombs which fell upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki were dismissed as insignificant while compared with the Soviet strength. The communists were as thorough as possible with this one-sided distortion of the facts, too thorough to be believable...