Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holes to divert allied scout dogs. They have been known to stampede water buffalo into American defensive wire and mines. They like to leave snakes and spiders in bunkers and underground complexes in order to keep U.S. troopers from investigating them. Not long ago, a Special Forces patrol came upon an ingenious booby trap that consisted of a basket filled with poisonous snakes. Its writhing contents would have cascaded on a man tripping the wire...
...ravages of the Depression on his students and the rise of Nazi Germany, Oppenheimer became too suddenly a social activist, naively lending his support to Communist as well as liberal causes. By the time the U.S. entered World War II, however, Oppenheimer had become disenchanted with Communism. Called upon to head the Los Alamos atom-bomb laboratory after a brilliant teaching career at Berkeley, he turned to his new assignment with ferocious energy, wasting away to 116 Ibs., but performing what even his enemies admit was a "magnificent" job in producing a workable bomb...
...included in this figure is the batch of 41,850 Econoline vans called back by Ford last week. A worker at the company's Lorain, Ohio, plant hit upon a production shortcut by shoving brake hoses through a spring coil. It saved time and money while it lasted, but the resulting malfunction of the Econoline's front brake may now cost Ford $100,000 to repair...
...Hunter could have made this movie without ritualistic props, if he could have given us a witch of the psyche whose power was entirely of understanding, then cheers upon cheers. Eric, a painter, who speaks for Hunter, says that he wants to become a film maker like Howard Hawks. At one point Emilie tells him, He'd better get going, it's a long way to Howard Hawks...
They also have agreed upon a strategy for their inevitable confrontation with the military authorities. First, the scouts stationed at the doors will alert the people inside, who will take up positions sitting in the aisles and obstruct the path of the authorities. Meanwhile, eight hand-picked sactuary occupants will link arms in a circle around Kroll, creating a final barrier to be broken before Kroll can be taken into custody...