Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fitting and yet how ironic that your cover portrait of Ben-Gurion with rays of light descending upon his head should remind one of Moses leading Israel out of Egypt...
Israel matched Egypt shout for shout, threat for threat. The Egyptian move to take over Gaza's civil administration was a long way from the unilateral "assumptions" that Israel had depended upon in agreeing to withdraw from Gaza. Premier Ben-Gurion gravely faced the Knesset and warned that Israel's troops might soon have to march again. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban was called away from a well-earned Florida vacation to present to Acting State Secretary Christian Herter a Ben-Gurion message describing the situation as extremely critical...
...Secretray-General should impress upon Nasser that once this objection has been removed Egypt has little choice under international law but to declare non-belligerency and permit free passage in Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. If the United States speaks out strongly on this point instead of equivocating with its usual pious phrases, Egypt will probably concede. For when Egypt has these securities, she will have no legal basis for interfering with Israeli shipping. But so long as Israel insists on occupying El Auja, Nasser will have some justification for keeping Israeli ships out of the canal...
Basically, the stellar photometer is a new application of lead sulphide cells, and the photoelectric effect upon which it depends is similar to that in an ordinary exposure meter. The chief mechanical difference lies in what Dr. Miczaika describes as a "chopper," which eliminates background light...
These cautious changes and promises hint that Franco is looking ahead to the day when Spain will be ruled by another person, or people, who won't have the prestige of being "the first Falangiste" to lean upon. Yet, the very fact that Franco has broadened his administration and pledges to loosen up, even very gradually and carefully, on censorship suggests his fear of continually suppressed criticism in a dictatorship whose stability may well rest solely upon Franco...