Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspect that the beautiful translation by Edward G. Seidensticker, which makes this possible, may have played a large part in attracting the attention of the panel. Your excellent article is lacking only in that it does not quote from his introduction to Snow Country: "In Snow Country we come upon the roaring silence of a winter night, for instance, or the round softness of the sound of running water, or, in a somewhat more elaborate figure, the sound of a bell, far back in the singing of a teakettle, suddenly becomes a woman's feet...
...poorer white sections of Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters to swing Michigan's 21 electoral votes to Humphrey by 151,-000 votes. Many Wallaceites also defected in Southern and Border states upon which he had counted. "They all talked hard," said Republican State Chairman Bill Murfin of Florida, "but the softness was there, and in the last two weeks of the campaign they just melted away...
...there were the hecklers, taunting a Vice President who refused to repudiate his unpopular chief and run away from the record of the past four years. Humphrey's personal physician and adviser, Dr. Edgar Berman, complained at one point: "There is no adversity that has not been visited upon this campaign." He was not far wrong...
...husband was taking off on another of his record-breaking flights, so Betty Conrad gave him a big kiss and "a squeeze you won't forget for two months." He won't. Upon landing in Calgary, Alta., on the first leg of a flight that he hopes will make him the first man to solo a light plane over both poles, Max Conrad, 65, the famed flying grandfather, discovered that his wife's enthusiastic embrace had left him with a cracked rib. "I'll get even with her on New Year's Eve when...
...space for an 84,240-word report on the two conventions written to fit the monthly deadline of a magazine, there remains at least one more problem. What if a reporter launches himself into a "subjective" account that doesn't seem "true" to whoever is entrusted to pass judgment upon truth and rightness? And if the reporter has aligned himself with the "wrong" side, who is to decide that this is so? The logic in attempting to provide unequivocal truth and rightness, then, is subject to infinite regression...