Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impact upon policy was generally to urge that the U.S. ought to take ever stronger stands against world Communism and that the U.S., while not abandoning its friendship with Israel, ought to concentrate upon repairing and rebuilding its friendship with the Arab states. So skillful was his handling of the crisis of Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh that President Eisenhower gave him the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for "courage and leadership during a dangerously unsettled period, for wisdom and unfailing patience in the course of complex negotiations...
...rest from their official duties this month at their Black Sea villas. But out of Warsaw last week came reports of a speech Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan recently made to Moscow University activists. One of the party's severest disciplinary judgments, "condemnation with a warning," has been pronounced upon Bulganin, said Mikoyan, for the Premier's vacillating stand last June, when, at the request of the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich "anti-party"' group, he chaired a meeting of the Presidium instead of turning the chair over to Nikita Khrushchev...
...people and believe in it, but the Jewish member of an American golf club does not believe in it. If Jewish people in the Diaspora cannot find a new source of pride and self-respect, they will collapse psychologically. That is where Israel comes in. But it is dependent upon real partnership...
...Phantom of the Opera, the sad clown in He Who Gets Slapped, Chaney proved the possibilities of escaping oneself. As an artist might rush to his easel to sketch the characters he had encountered in a day, Chaney would go home to his makeup kit and superimpose upon his own flesh the faces he had studied in police courts, water front dives and cafés. With putty and plaster, collodion-created scars, false teeth, wigs, facial clamps, cotton stuffing and rubber dilaters, Actor Chaney would be somebody else - an art he found most expedient in the days when...
...fruitfull countrey, inhabited with pasturing people, which dwell in the Summer season upon mountains, and in Winter they remoove into the valleyes . . . in carravans . . . of people and cattell, carrying all their wives, children and baggage...