Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using Running Mate Spiro Agnew to do most of the tough talking on the gut issue, Nixon has managed to strike an aloof stance. This tactic may well win the Republican ticket a good number of votes, but it could also inflict incalculable moral damage upon...
...city's black moderate leaders to a conference. Agnew dressed them down like a prison warden. He accused them of conspiring with such black radicals as Rap Brown and suggested that they had abdicated their leadership. "I publicly repudiate all white racists," he said. "I call upon you to publicly repudiate all black racists. This, so far, you have not been willing to do." Seventy of the Negroes angrily rose and walked out. State Senator Verda Welcome, who had praised Agnew as "a wonderful, honest statesman" after the antimiscegenation law was repealed, now snapped: "He is a wolf in sheep...
Fortas' interpretations vary, depending on the case. In 1966, he voted with the 5-to-4 majority to uphold the conviction of Eros Publisher Ralph Ginzburg on grounds that he pandered to prurient interests by using overly suggestive advertising. But that did not make much of an impression upon Eastland, Thurmond and critics even farther to the right. In a large mailing, the fanatically right-wing Liberty Lobby accused Fortas of being a convinced revolutionary and a supporter of the pornography industry...
Last spring when the Yearbook decided to write about the older members of the Harvard faculty including Crane Brinton, the article concluded, "To mark the passing of a great man is not to strike a mournful note, but merely to reflect upon the time-table of a career. For every end there is always, somewhere, a new beginning; and it is a funny but accepted truth that the many who start are always overshadowed by the few who finish...
...carry the world upon your shoulder...