Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attitude towards satellite na tions was stated by John Foster Dulles in Dallas just ten days before the election, and largely overlooked in the election excitement. The captive peoples, he said, "must know that they can draw upon our abundance to tide themselves over the period of economic adjustment" after breaking free of Moscow. What if these governments, like Gomulka's in Poland, are Communist? The U.S. does not "condi tion economic ties between us upon the adoption by these countries of any particular form of society." He also had a message meant to be digested in Moscow...
...most part, Chou himself struggled valiantly to sustain his own air of modesty and hearty good-fellowship. "A newly established big country like China," he assured his hosts with a wide smile, "is apt to cause suspicions and fears among smaller countries. Therefore, China must make even stricter demands upon itself and fight against the tendency toward great nation chauvinism...
...denied. In parliamentary debate, he was always a standout performer, respected by the Liberals and admired by the galleries for the deftness of his attacks on government policies. He was also a strong political campaigner-and a winning one. While the rest of the Tory Party suffered defeat upon defeat. Diefenbaker steadily increased his majorities in his own district...
When the new pictures were developed, they showed a broad, L-shaped canal 60 ft. wide and equivalent to the famous Grand Canal that is the main street of Venice. Closer study showed other canals and scores of rectangular blocks for houses and public buildings. The built-upon site covered 850 acres, the plants growing darkly green over silted canals and yellowish green over unnourishing brick and rubble...
...earliest memory was of himself as an ailing, rachitic two-year-old, bandaged like a mummy, immobile on a park bench while his elder brother bounced around showing off his prowess.) A disciple of Freud until he broke with him in 1911, Adler insisted that human beings are called upon to advance "an ideal society amongst mankind...