Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still such anxieties, U.S. diplomats drew up other inspection zones of U.S. and Russian lands in the Arctic, and Dulles won European support by making inspection of European zones conditional upon Russian agreement to inspection elsewhere. Dulles made these proposals...
...unorganized" from the United Automobile Workers, A.F.L. (no kin to Walter Reuther's U.A.W.-C.I.O.), later known as the Allied Industrial Workers. Who put up the money for office rent and expenses? Dio. Who became the local's business manager? Dio. Zakman began to feel put upon: Racketeer Dio was padding the local's payroll with his own boys, among them an organizer named Benny ("The Bug") Ross...
...week's end city police strengthened their coverage of uptown gang areas. But their blanket was too thin. One night, only 73 hours after the Farmer attack, 18-year-old George Marshall, standing on a Bronx street with a friend, was set upon by five boys and two girls, stabbed to death as his companion ran for help...
...recovered from the first, fine rapture of enjoying a pretty, well-mannered new Queen: What and where are a monarch's responsibilities in a democratic world? "When the Queen," wrote Altrincham, "has lost the bloom of youth, her reputation will depend far more than it does now upon her personality. She will have to say things which people can remember, and do things on her own initiative which will make people sit up and take notice. As yet there is little sign that such a personality is emerging...
...they left the turnstiles, the delegates were set upon immediately by bevies of bosomy beauties wearing "Garcia for President" sashes over their décolletage. "Ah," said one red-eyed delegate, "I see the day shift has taken over." Garcia opponents complained that the Garcia buttons pinned on delegates' lapels often had 10-peso bills under the button. The free sandwiches, similarly equipped, came to be known as "peso sandwiches...