Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each waiting for the fateful phone call summoning him to Buckingham Palace. At 1:30 widower Butler went home to a lonely lunch. A few moments later the phone rang in 11 Downing Street, official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Macmillan rushed off to "kiss hands upon his appointment...
...into being. He does not regret feeling as he did in the '305, when the landscape was dominated by bitterness and suffering and appalling inequalities. And after the war, as Minister of Housing, he believes he did not act like a man who was having public housing thrust upon...
Today, the lumber companies, especially the smaller ones, are almost entirely dependant upon National Forest sales for their timber. The small operators have difficulty enough obtaining timber in a straight competitive sale, since the larger companies can afford to pay more than the timber is worth in order to deprive the smaller operators and hence force them out of the area. The large company, having then no competitors, can buy National Forest timber at the minimum price...
...petition called for a referendum on the appointments and was found last week to contain 11,023 valid signatures. It was given to the committee by the city clerk last week to be voted upon "immediately...
Shaplin cited the city regulation stating that the committee had to "reconsider the appointments immediately" upon presentation. Edward Fitzgerald, Shaplin's most voluble opponent, revealed that "authorities" had told him that "immediately" could be construed as "within 30 days." His motion was passed, empowering Mayor Edward Sullivan, the chairman, to call a special meeting to consider the petition...