Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These departures follow close upon the resignation of Singleton, probably the nation's foremost Dante scholar, announced in April. Singleton's resignation came as "a kind of protest against infringement on individual departments by the Administration," a source close to him said at the time. Singleton's departure will leave Louis F. Solona, associate professor of Romance Languages the only permanent appointee actively teaching in the Department...
Several embassy employees and members of the Marine guard were stoned and beaten. In isolated parts of Taipei individual Americans and other foreigners were set upon or driven into hiding. The U.S. Information Service office was completely destroyed. On the walls rioters painted anti-U.S. slogans in English and Chinese. Said one: "Kick Out the American Devils." Said another, more indicative of Taipei's mood: "Don't Behave Like Russians...
...Dignifies." With malicious glee he seized Buenos Aires' La Prensa, long famed as one of the world's topflight newspapers, turned it into a mouthpiece for the C.G.T. And with engaging buffoonery, he joked at his own career: "As the man who fell from the skyscraper said upon passing the third floor, so far I'm doing fine...
...Proclaims one Hindu manual for wives: "Be her husband deformed, aged, infirm, offensive . . . choleric, debauched, immoral, a drunkard, a gambler, let him frequent places of ill-repute, live in open sin with other women ... a wife should always look upon him as her god . . . remain with her eyes fixed upon him waiting for his orders...
...into a "paradoxical phase," and respond more vigorously to weak, unimportant stimuli than to strong ones. Finally, in what Pavlov called the "ultraparadoxical" phase, everything is upside down-a man who has been hounded mercilessly day and night by a relentless police interrogator may suddenly begin to look upon his tormentor as his friend and protector...