Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purposefully for his turn with Dulles. When it came, he pushed his glasses down his nose and began to read a prepared statement. U.S. Middle Eastern policy under Dulles, he said, has "grievously wounded" Britain and France. Before Congress approves the Eisenhower resolutions, Fulbright continued, Dulles should be called upon to account for why these "responsible and friendly governments" had felt it necessary to conceal from the U.S. their plans for armed intervention in the Suez crisis...
Last week a foursome at Selangor's ninth hole was surprised to see a squad of riflemen in the brush beside the fairway, muttered something about their ruining the rough. As the golfers prepared to tee off, there was a burst of rifle fire. The soldiers had come upon a long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...
...here-and-now moment is everything. Scriptures are snares for the mind's entanglement-a favorite Zen picture shows a Zen monk tearing up a Buddhist scroll. Even concepts are to be shunned as far as possible. "Emptiness" is looked upon by the Zen Buddhist as the closest thing to truth...
...Secret Affair (Warner) is a comedy of bad manners. They are largely exercised by a newsmagazine tycoon (Susan Hayward), aided by her editor (Paul Stewart), upon a famed combat general (Kirk Douglas). The general believes that there are only two kinds of women: mothers and the others. The female tycoon believes that there are only two kinds of men, "and I can handle both." Each, by profession, is determined to have his own way. When she decides to do a cover story on him, exposing him as a blabbermouth and general incompetent, the stage appears...
...film, of course, revolves upon Alec Guinness's amazing display of virtuoso acting, as he plays seven different and distinct characters including the lead. Completely British in tone, Mr. Guinness underplays each role with a delightfully droll, often satirical, humor which never over-extends itself or tries too hard to be guffawingly funny...