Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most critical areas." Nixon continued: "Eight years ago, our numerical advantage over the Soviets in bombers was 30%. Now it's more than the other way around. Today the Soviets are 50% ahead of us." At the end of 1960, when both superpowers still relied principally upon bombers as a means of delivering nuclear warheads, the U.S. had 1,930 big intercontinental bombers, the Russians only 1,200. Today, with bombers serving primarily as a back-up force to the missiles, the American bomber force has been reduced to 646 planes...
...cover he had listed hundreds of its energetic verbs and compound adjectives-forerunners of TIME'S "beetle-browed," "buzzard-bald," etc. He also encouraged backward-running sentences ("A ghastly ghoul prowled around a cemetery not far from Paris. Into family chapels went he, robbery of the dead intent upon"). When Hadden, only 31, died of a streptococcus infection in 1929, the magazine published a Milestones item about him which ended in a typical TIME sentence: "To Briton Hadden success came steadily, satisfaction never...
Paradise Now--The Living Theatre's house special, in which the actors are sometimes called upon to mingle with the audience. At KRESGE AUDITORIUM, M.I.T., tonight. Sold...
...degree of success achieved by coach Bruce Munro's 4-2-4 varsity soccer lineup depends to a large extent upon the "link men," the two players who act as liasons between offense and defense...
...controversy have any effect upon the boat's performance...