Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pound of bread per day for workers and only two slices (about 150 calories) for children. Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose. Cats and dogs swiftly disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages of the famine, parents kept a close eye on their children lest they be kidnaped; the "meat patties" that were sold in the Haymarket, Leningrad's slum quarter, sometimes contained human flesh. Salisbury describes how Red Army soldiers...
...With this sardonically bittersweet tragedy, the book begins to shift from a comic, rather hip tale into a complex and moving novel with sharp historic resonances. The grieving Graff delves into Siggy's notebooks, which contain a somewhat fictional history of his parents and of the marks laid upon their lives by experiences during and immediately after World War II in Yugoslavia and Austria. Siggy calls these notes his "prehistory," and his recollected stories seem touched by the bizarre influence of Gunter Grass. On the day in 1938 when Austria capitulates to Hitler, for example, a man whom Siggy...
...worried, however, that body awakening and sensory awareness were simply euphemisms for sexual looseness. He knew little about Freud, but he had a vague, unsettling feeling that what would happen would show men, and himself, to be nothing but sexual creatures, bent upon lust, and upon their own fulfillment. Much as the boy enjoyed the thought of this, he could not intellectually accept it as a way of life...
Cohen said that a phobia is not simply a fear. "Someone who is nervous about addressing 10,000 people in the Boston Garden is not necessarily a phobic. But the guy who cuts his seminar because he is afraid that he will be called upon to speak has a crippling disability...
Barnaby, commenting on Harvard's lack of success at Annapolis, said, "We're going to try to break that jinx; we have a good team, and the boys are eager." Barnaby added. "The weekend will depend upon how well we adjust to the different courts, and the different balls we'll be using...