Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite any good intentions for his country, Eden, via his appallingly reckless policies, has foisted upon an already troubled free world another onerous, odious potpourri of perplexities, anxieties, and fears...
...growing danger of this . . ." The less stately Sunday Times talked of "the present rigorously anti-British policies of President Eisenhower," and added: "A belief is spreading that American policy is controlled by the oil lobby." The Daily Mail's cartoonist depicted Ike skulking away from a wall upon which he had scrawled BRITISH GO HOME...
...does a lot of listening at these sessions, his sharp blue eyes set deep in a sallow face, with its high cheekbones and bulky forehead, expanded by baldness. It is the face of one who has held stubbornly to his beliefs and acted resolutely upon them. But visitors are often astonished to find him so aged and apparently frail. He seems shorter than his 5 ft. 7 in., older than his 51 years. These are the marks of his lifelong apprenticeship to Communism. Years of imprisonment in his youth left him with a lung ailment, a police bullet has permanently...
...Quorum. Kadar flatly rejected, one by one, virtually every demand the workers' councils had made upon his government. He refused to bring former Premier Imre Nagy back into the government. He could not see his way clear to allowing the establishment of more political parties "under prevailing circumstances." (His own Communist Party, under a new name, the Socialist Workers, had been unable to muster a quorum at some meetings, and in the Csepel metalworks, once known as "Red Csepel," the party has so far enrolled only 360 out of 38,000 workers...
...grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is perfected in weakness. When we admit our weakness and call upon God for help, his divine power flows into our lives and turns defeat into victory...