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Word: upon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prompted a moving ovation from thousands upon thousands of Poles with his all-but-unheralded arrival in Warsaw (see FOREIGN NEWS), striking a dramatic contrast with the coolness of Khrushchev's own reception three weeks before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Improbable Success | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...United States, and we are going to treat the white man the way he should be treated." Roared the crowd: "That's right! More! More!" For more than two hours, as shouts and applause rose in regular cadences, the scowling, incendiary speaker obliged by pouring out his scorn upon all "white devils," "satisfied black men," the "poison" Bible, Christianity's "slave-master doctrine," and America's "white for white" justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: The Black Supremacists | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...objector and son of convicted Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hess, now whiling away his life in Berlin's dark Spandau Prison. Young Hess explained that he is loath to put in his legal twelve-month stint in West Germany's army. With bitter Teutonic irony, he enlarged upon his refusal to be drafted: "My conscience forbids me to serve those who judged and condemned my father. Moreover, in performing military service, which might be construed as aiding in the preparation for a next war, I might some day suffer the same unpleasant consequences that my father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...pool from the two collectives that own it, are reported ready to offer $140,000. If the offer is turned down, Teitelbaum will order mass demonstrations by his followers. Says one of his spokesmen: "The deportment of men and women in this sinful place will bring his wrath upon the city and the Holy Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: King of All Rabbis | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...Baptist Eyman it seemed quite "normal and natural to tell the boy to go to church." But last week the American Civil Liberties Union was yelling foul. The spirit of the Constitution had been violated, said A.C.L.U.'s Northern California Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess, by word or act, their faith therein." The San Francisco Chronicle also held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church or Jail | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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