Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous World War II cartoon by Bill Mauldin, an Army officer asked the same question as he gazed upon a spectacular vista...
...more violent crimes in the cities than do whites; the poor usually do. Although Negroes make up 11% of the U.S. population, black arrests for murder last yea"r numbered 4,883, compared with 3,200 for whites. The overwhelming majority of victims of violent crime are set upon by members of their own race. That is why Negroes suffer far more from lawlessness of almost every sort than do whites. It explains why 2,000 residents of Watts recently petitioned their council representatives for better police protection. James Jones, Negro owner of a Washington steak house, is not alone...
...oblong noose into which Biafra has shrunk. The roads are heavily mined, often forcing federal soldiers to take to the thick roadside bush. There they use their submachine guns as deadly scythes, pouring thousands of rounds into the thickets and the few roadside huts they come upon. As in any war, some civilians are hit, but there has been little genocide in the ground advance, if only because almost no civilians remain be hind. The almost total absence of ordinary people in the area of fighting is one of the eerie aspects...
...most conspicuous failure, however, was that of the students themselves. Tuesday afternoon, after Olimpieri's arrest, 100 of them met for over two hours to discuss the implications of the sanctuary. At the meeting the students failed to agree upon a position of support for the Marine, failed to address themselves to any of the issues which the sanctuary raised, and finally relinquished their responsibility to the Student Council which, that night, adopted a statement urging others "to join with us in similar acts of protest...
Every Friday, for two hours, the section man will meet with Professor Cottle to discuss the class in terms of substance, administration, and teaching. These meetings will help section men bring all the resources of the group to bear upon intellectual or teaching problems as they arise. Such problems will be discussed and evaluated, and the combined experience of the group should go far in aiding the solution of problems, in revising techniques which were used, and heightening the sensitivity of the section men to their causes...