Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very night of their arrival, one locomotive from the first shipment of eight was stolen, never to be recovered. Upon probing the possible motive for such a seemingly irrational act as the theft of a locomotive, I discovered that in meeting the prescribed quota of ton-kilometers-per-engine hauled, the harassed Soviet railroad official indeed stood to gain by having an extra and unaccounted-for one up his sleeve. Ironically, this locomotive got abducted before my men had a chance to change its axles to the wider track of the Russian railroads-as her crew must have found...
Fascinated by Zen. Merton's wide-ranging, eclectic mind could touch upon the Beatles or the Bomb, but for a quarter of a century he never left the Abbey of Gethsemani, except for trips to the doctor or drives with visiting friends around neighboring Kentucky hills. In fact, for almost a decade, with his ab bot's permission, he had withdrawn from much of the community life, living Thoreau-like in a small hermitage on abbey property more than a mile from the main buildings. This year he was finally granted a leave of absence from Gethsemani...
...first thing anyone usually asks an Israeli is about the Six Day War and the "occupied" or "liberated" (depending upon your political bias) territories...
...Lunar Caustic, Lowry uses his secondary characters effectively to expand upon and control the main autobiographical figure, William Plantagenet, a young Englishman and a drunk, who is committed temporarily to Bellevue Hospital in New York. In the central conversation between Plantagenet and the Doctor, Lowry plays the Doctor's practical, mindlessly psychologistic comments against Plantagenet's solipsism. At the same time, however, the Doctor's words serve as a kind of objective warning against the distortions implicit in Lowry's habit of creating only autobiographical characters...
...they climbed, ever higher into the Sierra Madre, mountains beyond mountains beyond mountains where on these mountains the farmers sowed their seed crops and left them, upon seemingly inaccessible peaks. ... And what a lesson there was for a writer in this; it was an ascension into heaven itself...