Word: upon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, another regent and the state's liberal Democratic boss, agreed for once with the Governor. Said he: "I call upon the mature members of the faculty to review the appointment and to ask themselves whether his appointment serves the long-range best interests of the university...
Like Gettysburg, El Alamein and other classic engagements, the Battle of Chicago seems destined to be endlessly refought. Unlike most textbook conflicts, however, no one can agree upon who won, let alone who the aggressors were or whether the battle need ever have occurred at all. When the President's commission on violence opened hearings in Washington last week, the nation's two top law officers, Attorney General Ramsey Clark and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, were firing from opposing sides...
...felt it had to honor him as it had honored Monroe when he visited Boston. John Quincy Adams, a Harvard overseer, did not take part in the confirmation vote, and he later wrote in his diary that it was a disgrace to confer the University's "highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name...
...others destroyed by America. But the movement that he helped inspire continues and grows and will not be stopped. We are fortunate today to have with us the woman who has courageously stepped forward to help fill the vast gulf that his death leaves, a woman who has taken upon herself to be mother to four young children and at the same time to replace her husband as minister to the soul of a troubled society. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to introduce to you, Mrs. Coretta Scott King...
...just a liberal New Politics machine for electing candidates and taking over state party organizations. According to Gore, "we hope to produce politicians with a strong concern for issues and leading their constituency, not with their own prospects of re-election. Most of its founders look upon it more as a "permanent issues caucus" at a national level. Once the November 4 election is over, building a national constituency and fighting for election reform will become the major pre-occupation...