Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfortunate state of some of the important Western European ambassadorships. The tremendous expenses necessary for the maintenance and conduct of the embassies in, for instance, London and Paris, effectively preclude the selection of anyone not independently wealthy. Thus, both Eisenhower and his Democratic predecessors have had to rely upon prosperous individuals who are ready to sacrifice a good deal of their time and wealth for diplomatic work...
...School at that time and both Leo Stein and his sister impressed me as bright young Freshmen with independent and a little erratic notions--notions, of course, which they expressed much more modestly and pressed less strenuously upon older people than they did habitually later...
...Saturday night's contest, its outcome would seem to depend upon the health of sophomore sensation Bob Mlkvy, the younger brother of the famed "Owl without a vowel," Bill. Mlkvy broke his left leg in a November practice, and is just beginning to return to form...
...compensate for the smaller number of courses, Harris called upon the colleges to reduce course requirements, so that students might pursue more independent study in their individual fields of interest...
...Upon return to America, the family settled in Oakland, California, where the children became thoroughly westernized. Gertrude approved of California because she got "all anybody could want of joyous sweating, of rain and wind, of hunting, of cows and horses and dogs, of chopping wood, of making hay, of dreaming, of lying in a hollow all warm with the sun shining while the wind was howling, of knowing all poor kinds of queer people...