Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Labor Secretary James Mitchell as deadline loomed: "I want to urge upon the parties the fact that 1 temporary resumption of production under a Taft-Hartley injunction and a postponement of permanent settlement will solve nothing ... I would hope that, in view of the grave results that are liable to follow their continued inability to reach a permanent settlement, this final plea will make them mindful of their responsibility to their fellow citizens...
Sermon of Hate. But even as Schrijver spoke, the Congolese were tragically showing how little sense of political responsibility they have. Once again the colony's leading political party, Abako, was up to its old tricks of playing upon the superstitions of the ignorant. In the port of Matadi, 160 miles southwest of Léopoldville, 400 Congolese were suddenly overcome by hysteria after listening to a sermon by one of the many "apostles" of Kibangu, a "black savior" who died in 1951 but is expected by his followers to return one day and drive out the white...
...ineffectively over the bloodstained jungle around Luluabourg, Belgian officialdom was hopefully awaiting the reaction of Congolese politicians to Schrijver's timetable for independence. But to outsiders-and to many Belgians as well-it seemed doubtful that any timetable, however reasonable, could ward off the chaos that was descending upon one of the world's richest colonies...
...final months of the International Geophysical Year drew near, President Eisenhower sent to eleven other nations* an invitation that was also a warning. Along with the U.S., the eleven had all sponsored IGY research projects in the Antarctic, and seven of them had longstanding territorial claims upon the vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent. Without some kind of international agreement, wrote the President, the Antarctic might well become a dangerous source of "political rivalries." Last week, after a series of secret preliminary meetings, the world's first Antarctic conference opened in Washington-and paradoxically enough, the international climate...
...been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...