Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought back the virtue Hope to the American political scene. Regrettably, the Senator's antiwar campaign is also based on hope, not reality. The Senator hopes that if we stop the bombing there will be peace-as if events had not cast even the slightest discredit upon such fatuous wishing. Until the Communists show an interest in a just peace that does not involve simple N.L.F. takeover, a bombing halt would be merely a quixotic exercise in futility...
...army into the Second Battle of Bull Run-an even more stunning defeat for the Union than the first-and McClellan, a good organizer if nothing else, was given the task of putting the Union's forces back together. "Again," he wrote his wife, "I have been called upon to save the country." In September 1862, Lee invaded the North for the first time, and-with sensational luck-McClellan's men came upon a copy of his orders, detailing the exact positions of the divided rebel army. "Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie...
...however, and slowly the federal vise tightened on the vital Mississippi. One improbable name, Ulysses S. Grant, stood out, and as defeat followed defeat in the East, Northerners still remembered his blunt demand for the "immediate and unconditional" surrender of Fort Donelson in 1862: "I propose to move immediately upon your works." Donelson surrendered. Finally in March 1864, Lincoln himself remembered, and Grant was given charge of all the Northern armies, Moving East to take personal command of the ill-starred Army of the Potomac. Lincoln had found his general, and though the war lasted for another arduous year...
...pages," said Los Angeles Drug Salesman Peter Davis, 28, last week. "What goes on in high society has no effect on my life-and that's the way it is with gold." Well, that is not quite right. And though the precise effects of the recent gold crisis upon Davis and millions of other Americans remain speculative, one thing is certain: the whole business is going to hit where it hurts...
...decides, of course, to take the second alternative. He is imperious and gay, kindly and cruel-and he knows his enemy. Yet his special mixture of idealism and cynicism makes a poor weapon against the greed, ignorance and envy of his political foes. His subjects look upon him as a god, and soon, the reformer begins to see himself that way too. It is the beginning of his doom...