Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hours after the Democratic congressional landslide rumbled down last November, nimble Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson proposed to build upon it "a bold housing program" suitable to the big-spending tastes of his party's enlarged liberal wing. He gave it top priority when the 86th Congress convened in January, threw aside the President's modest request for a six-year, $1.6 billion program, hammered a $2.6 billion plan through the Senate by early February. Then Dwight Eisenhower's budget battle began to take hold, and the companion House bill, delayed until...
Critical Fortnight. The New York task force, made up of nine high state officials under the chairmanship of Manhattan Lawyer Oscar M. Ruebhausen, based its recommendations on two fundamental facts: 1) in a nuclear attack upon U.S. cities, fallout radiation, the "silent killer," could cause three or four times as many deaths as the blast and heat from exploding nuclear warheads; 2) inexpensive fallout shelters would provide a "very high degree of protection" against fallout radiation. "Although thermonuclear war would be a major disaster," said the task-force report, "the magnitude of the disaster can be markedly limited by protective...
...everyone among the Grand Duchy's 316,000 citizens shared Bech's territorial ambitions. Two years ago the Minister of Justice himself assured a group of foreign correspondents that if anyone tried to force as much as one foot of land upon it, Luxembourg would defend its territorial integrity to the last man. The government never did get around to passing a law making citizens of Luxembourg of the three German families who live in the Kammerwald. Thereupon, according to international agreement, Kammerwald had never officially been a part of Luxembourg at all. Last week, winding...
...Harvard. But I am not alone in my adoration for America's oldest college. One member of an English class, venting her enthusiasm for Harvard, remarked, "I just can't get the smile off my face. I try to close my mouth, but it breaks with a smile." Upon querying another summer student as to whether or not she was a regular member of the Harvard family, I received the prompt and concise reply, "No, I wish I were...
...Maria, is perfect. She makes it clear that Maria's wits are as sharp as her nose and her chin; she is quite bright enough to have thought up one of the profoundest statements in the play: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." Miss Grimes skedaddles and flits about with a lively infectiousness that is devastating...