Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon, perhaps late in April, the U.S. Air Force plans to test-fire its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas. Known to its keepers as "the Bird," Atlas presses evenly, inevitably, inexorably, upon the visible pattern of U.S. defense, industry and life, including Southern motels (see cut). For the story of the man, Air Force Major General Ben A. Schriever, who has the responsibility of developing the ICBM as an operational weapon, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Bird & the Watcher...
...aura of corruption arising from the hearing room of the U.S. Senate committee investigating labor racketeering last week began to show profound effects within and upon U.S. organized labor. Since the aroma emanated mostly-so far-from Frank Brewster, head of the Western Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (see box), it was the Teamsters who felt the first and greatest impact...
...varsity tennis team will embark upon its annual trip to the south, this weekend in order to pick up some valuable pre-season practice against some of the perenially strong southern squads. The team will play the University of North Carolina on April first and second, Duke the third and fourth, and Navy the sixth...
Your editorial writer remarks that "professors Levin, Chapman and Brower ... have appointed themselves unofficial ministers to the board of trustees, and have taken upon their shoulders the work of keeping Cambridge drama clean." This is inaccurate: professors Levin, Brower and I are members of the board of trustees, not self-appointed "ministers"; we are only three of a total board of nine which acts unanimously in all important decisions. Your editorial writer did not, I am told, consult any one of the members of the board. Since your editorial purported to be based on matters of fact, it would seem...
...elements of Lawrence's story, despite a shift in time from after World War One to the present, are still pretty much intact. Lady Chatterley, the heroine of the story, still takes a lover upon the urging of her husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, whose injury in the war prevents him from begetting the heir he desperately wants. But the lover turns out not to be of Sir Clifford's liking--he is the gamekeeper on the Chatterley estate. The affair, the audience is told with great care, teaches Lady Chatterley that the only possible union between two human souls...