Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reason No. 4 was that Kohler rested upon his good record as governor and upon Eisenhower's thread-thin coattails. Proxmire shook hands-a million by his own smiling summary-and hit hard at his issues in such vote-catching phrases as "big-business price fixing . . . big steel, big oil, big food . . . big processors hammering down the farmers' income...
While trucking-industry management generally likes Hoffa and looks upon him with some awe, bigger fish tend to fear him. At the biggest dinner of its kind ever held in Detroit, more than 2,600 well-wishers last year paid $100 apiece in honor of Hoffa's 25 years in the labor movement (proceeds for a children's home in Israel). Scores of important names in the Midwest seized the chance to shake the hard, square hand of Hoffa. And though General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employ only 500 Teamsters (out of a total payroll list...
...View, New Facts. By noon, Simons was up to about 102,000 ft. (exact height is still being checked) and looked upon a view no man had seen before. The horizon was 400 miles away. Overhead the sky was dark. The earth was a lifeless blob delicately dissected by rivers and lakes. Reported Sightseer Simons: "It was as though all the color had been washed...
...sort of educational philosophers that are needed. Just where such philosophers would come from no one can say, but, says Woodring, the people themselves "have developed their own unique view of the role of the schools." Though never stated in any complete or coherent form, this view "is based upon our concept of freedom and opportunity for all, and upon our conviction that the individual must accept a large measure of responsibility for his own development and his own behavior. It accepts the principle of competition and the right to enjoy the fruits of individual accomplishment. It holds the state...
...river it spans. Then the enemies, in one of those little miracles that sometimes momentarily halt a war, recognize her as a figure of mercy transcending their strife. Both sides call for a ceasefire. Dr. Helga delivers her package to her enemies, staggers back toward her German compatriots, collapses upon the bridge. The cease-fire was ordered too late. A stray bullet-little matter whose-has mortally wounded...