Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson on March 31 proposed "Geneva or any other suitable place" as a meeting ground. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Buy Trinh came back with Pnompenh, Cambodia, "or another place to be mutually agreed upon." After each side deflected the other's first suggestion, the U.S. named Laos, Burma, Indonesia and India. "Not adequate," replied the North Vietnamese, countering with Warsaw...
Surely, but not necessarily slowly, U.S. shore lines are receding, and the oceans are advancing upon the land. According to the Army Corps of Engineers, at least 90% of the Atlantic Coast from New Hampshire to Florida is being eroded, and a dozen of the biggest public beaches are so badly depleted that they are in danger of being carried away. And the Gulf Coast and the Pacific are not much better...
...dreams of attaining King-like status: "You can't plot your rise in a movement. There are lots of leaders who can arouse the people with their words. Most of the great ones arose from nowhere--they had prominence thrust upon them. It's all a matter of being in the right place at the right time." For the present, he has no intentions of leaving Roxbury to seek that right place...
...Princetonians, who had defeated all of their previous opponents that season by a 9-0 margin, speculated on their chances of performing a similar fete against the Crimson. The latter had fallen two years running to the defending national champs, so one Tiger racquetman thought it only proper, upon arriving at Hemenway Gym, to inquire of his Harvard opponent, "Aren't you scared playing Princeton?" "Oh yeah, terrified," came the reply...
SOME of the frottage pictures deny the technique rather than capitalize upon it. "Forest, Sun, Birds" is a lithograph-like combination of oil and frottage, Great dark shafts of stylized trees, with glimmers of yellow and blue for shadow and sun create the forest. A large blind eye and the desperate outline of a baby bird, containing a subtle light ambiguously suggests the life within the bird and a clearing in the forest...