Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from now, these soldiers will probably be as aghast as anyone at what they've done." In the first U.S. war-crimes trial to come out of Viet Nam, two G.I.s involved in the mutilations have now been found guilty by a special court-martial of "bringing discredit upon the armed forces...
...know enough about the situation." A researcher, he insists, cannot be responsible for how other people use his inventions. "You don't know what's coming," he says. "I was working on a technical problem that was considered pressing. I'd do it again, if called upon, in defense of the country...
...subject is still love, the variety of its comic faces and the delusions and dark necessities upon which it feeds. But now the problems are well within the grasp of a marriage counselor. Gone are the Murdochian sexual extravaganzas that only a dash of sly metaphysics kept from degenerating into peep shows. Sex in The Nice and the Good is nearly just that...
...matter what ails Harvard, it should easily dispose of Penn, which will be playing its first Ivy hockey game in history at Watson Rink Saturday night. (Tickets are available now at 60 Boylston St., and also at Carey Cage before game time, upon presentation of coupon 15.) Penn was R.P.I.'s first victim this year, 18-2, and that was before the Engineers started to jell...
...Most Dangerous Game ended with a moment of silence for the world that had been, before the players brought a nuclear holocaust upon themselves. As the TV cameras blinked off I felt a curious letdown--it was all over. In four weeks we had gotten no further than a large inconclusive war; and then in one final week we had brought the world...