Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your readers who boasts being above the 90th percentile in education and intelligence, says: "I still believe the Bible when it states that Jesus walked upon the water and Jonah was swallowed by a great fish. No one has yet come up with any evidence to the contrary [April 5]." There is not a shred of evidence that the cow did not jump over the moon, or that Cinderella's coach was not turned into a pumpkin at midnight...
...does nothing-directly -to conquer prejudice or poverty. Moreover, enforcement may prove forbiddingly difficult since a Negro who is refused housing because of his race must first appeal to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, then file suit in the courts. Yet the psychological effect of the act upon developers, homeowners and Negroes alike will open many doors. For the first time by federal law, a Negro in the U.S. is as entitled as any white-or more accurately, four-fifths as entitled-to buy or rent any house or apartment that he can afford...
...least popular resolution was sponsored by Fairbank and Professor I. Milton Sachs of Brandeis. Their position, the most "hawkish" of the four, called upon the U.S. to "de-emphasize bombing and reliance on firepower in general, and to greatly and rapidly increase our support of political and social programs through military 'clear and hold' operations rather than 'search and destroy' missions...
Harvard relied upon the outstanding individual sailing of Jim Harper and Tony Parker for its showing in the other regattas...
...little comfort in the thought that a large number of Harvard's Faculty believe he made a noble choice. I should prefer that no student be faced with this decision; events have dictated otherwise. I hope no one will offer encouragement towards defiance who will not then voluntarily insist upon the same consequences for himself. Harold C. Gotoff Instructor in the Classics