Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defy a giant in the name of freedom, the same freedom which the whole free world endlessly chants about, it fights alone. It is a lonely and futile fight indeed that inevitably has to be lost while the rest of the free world stands by and pours torrents upon torrents of sympathetic words...
...routine. Then, day before the confirmation vote, Wayne Morse took the Senate floor, orated for 32 hours-through some 20,000 words-against Clare Luce. Commented Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush when it was over: "I doubt there has ever been a more severe and bitter attack upon an individual who has been nominated by a President for a high post in the service of this Government." Samples of the Morse attack...
...projected medical library will act as the nucleus of the Center, upon its completion, and will probably be the most modern medical library in America. A recent gift of $3.5 million by Miss Sandra Countway, plus other substantial donations to the Medical School Fund Drive, have made it possible for the University to consider immediate action on the estimated $7.5 million library project...
...argument runs like this: a Wellesley student, if she really wants an academic discipline, does have a chance to work on her own if she proves her ability. She can concentrate upon almost anything she wishes, once she has gotten some broad lower-level humanities courses...
...letter also denied that the loyalty oath abridged the freedom of "heretics" "to voice radical opinions." "Academic freedom," it said, "implies recognition of everyone's right to teach, advocate, and peacefully support his own ideas. Conspiracies to impose an ideology or form of government upon the people by force of arms, violate the academic and personal liberties of every member of society...