Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greeting came from towns-Troisdorf, Plittersdorf, Bonn-that had been conquered by the U.S. First Army. But in old foe Germany, as in old ally Britain, the crowds made plain their confidence in Dwight Eisenhower as the free-world leader best qualified to quest for peace based upon strength and principle. Everywhere, the banners proclaimed, WE TRUST YOU and WE RELY...
...Capitol Hill itself, there was another new team. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen succeeded California's obstructionist William Fife Knowland as Senate Republican leader, and Knowland had been as inept a leader as was ever inflicted upon a President. In the House, Indiana's Charles Halleck, with White House blessings, ousted Massachusetts' aging Joe Martin as Minority leader, soon proved himself a whiplashing, gut-fighting leader who would go down the line for the Administration...
With Anderson, Persons, Halleck and Dirksen giving him incalculable aid, Ike adeptly forced his balanced budget upon the overwhelmingly Democratic 86th Congress. His sharpest instrument was his veto power; five times so far this year, the President vetoed measures he considered extravagant, and each time he made his veto stick. By mid-session, even as Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was grumbling about "vetoes, vetoes, vetoes," the Democratic congressional leadership threw in the towel, began working for legislation close enough to the President's own spending recommendations to escape the veto. At that point, the Eisenhower budget battle...
...those two orders, and with the publicizing of them at his press conference, President Eisenhower threw still another major force into the struggle: he laid U.S. prestige on the jungle line in Laos almost as surely as he once committed it along the rocky shores of Quemoy-Matsu and upon the hot sands of Lebanon...
...Once upon a time, Gypsy Rose Lee was known for her ability to tease more than she stripped. More recently she has made her name and fortune as a teller of tales. Last week in London, she told of vacationing recently in Yugoslavia when, at the wheel of a rented Rolls-Royce, she collided with a motorcycle on a winding road overlooking the Adriatic Sea. To her astonishment, recalled Gypsy, deadpan, the rider and his passenger high-tailed it for the woods, abandoning their machine. Later Gypsy asked a Yugoslav official why the wild ones had acted so wildly...