Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vassar girl's life is a mere round of spineless play, one is presented with a solemn full page of "Traditions:" "Salve" (a Latin greeting, not an ointment), which sings the praises of Seniors, vi-vo-vi-vo-vum; Tree Day, on which the Class of '61 must pounce upon a helpless and diseased elm and claim it as its own, thus "leaving its name with Vassar forever;" and such other unique traditions as Convocation and Matriculation...
Immediately, Feeney's black-garbed followers appeared on the scene, but the culprits had vanished. The police were summoned, and upon their arrival were addressed by Feeney: "They are haters of the blessed Virgin, desecrators of the Mother of God. Over there in Adams House we hear all sorts of foul language and we never do anything. But this is too much. If there isn't fast action on this, it will...
...shocked and ashamed upon reading the first two letters in the Sept. 9 issue. Insults-to a woman [Althea Gibson] who has brought honor to our country, and to you who told her story. What kind of people are these? How do I explain their letters to my children? How do I explain the actions of Americans in Sturgis, Nashville, Little Rock and Levittown...
...human dilemma: "I don't like Negroes and God knows I'd hate to have to live with them-but I can't help thinking how awful it would be if my little girls had to go through a mob to be cursed and spit upon." Said a Negro bartender in Dynamite Jackson's Los Angeles saloon: "A lot of whites I know never got excited about this segregation thing in the past. Now they're red-hot under the collar...
...Marshal Beal Kidd, an old friend of Faubus, passed through the National Guard lines and handed Faubus the summons on the executive lawn. The summons genuinely worried Faubus: the man who hated to be looked down upon began to fret about the trouble his new prominence might bring...