Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of the "true church" to realize that Communist torture methods are no more horrible or brutal. Tyranny is tyranny whether it goes under the name of "the true church" or any other label. The Catholic Church is as guilty in removing the basic "freedom of choice," upon which all other freedoms are based, as any Communist government which imposes its will on the people...
...fired off a "Dear Dave" letter: "There has been talk of your receiving a kickback [from a building loan in Honolulu with Teamster funds], the plain implication being that this was in accordance with a pattern. I am sure that your fiduciary duty has never been sufficiently impressed upon your mind. Accept my resignation...
Many advantages are expected from such a revised European economy. As well as relieving a fuel shortage, Euratom should help ease political pressure upon Middle Eastern oil suppliers. Europeans have seen, at home, ineffectual results from attempts at political and military unification without a preliminary economic solidarity. With the proposed plan for a common economic future, colonies, arms, and atoms will prove common problems with collective solutions to European nations...
When it is not peeking in upon Northern boys swearing love to dainty Southern belles, and dashing Southern gentlemen swearing love to Northern girls, the movie pursues a great epic-theme: the heroic South certainly got a rotten deal after the Civil War. In an attempt to insure that "carpetbagger" will leave a bitter taste in every moviegoer's mouth, the film details the labor pains of the nation's birth...
...number of explanations have been offered for the increased activity in the creative and performing arts that has burst upon this and other academic communities. Some say it is due to the inwardness of this generation, its close ties to Europe and a national swing to "do it yourself" in culture. While all this is partly true, the best explanation may be the impatience of this generation to live. The emphasis is removed from the old institutions of political activity. Political organizations lived on a myth. One felt a certain self-importance but it didn't make much...