Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nazis were in front of the entrance to the Pentagon, too, at least until a whole horde of demonstrators, sick of their taunts, set upon ten of them and chased them over roads and fences and parking lots, beating them over the head with the Nazis' own picket signs...
However farcial these restrictions may sound, they hardly begin to indicate the destructive oppression imposed upon the Greek people. It has been over a half year since the dictatorship came to power under the pretext of a communist threat, and there are no signs of the junta relinquishing any of its control. Thousands of political prisoners remain in jail, and, worse, the entire population is paralyzed with fear. There are no tanks or troops on the streets of Athens; they are not needed...
...landscape is hilly and varied. The Manchester ship canal runs deep nearby with ocean liners and oil tankers: the Bridgewater Canal rolls slowly through the city with motorboats and home-made craft. Runcorn's famous landmark is the castle of King Alfred's daughter, Elfleda, that now looks out upon the rich Cheshire farms to the south and the Liverpool-Runcorn Bridge to the north...
...face of gross racial segregation, the weak-kneed liberals on our State Board of Education have given up all leverage and released state funds in return for token gestures. As a result, the Negro population has turned it upon itself and found its salvation only in the lream of a black community governing the lives of black children, educating black kids in black classrooms under black teachers and headmasters. It is not surprising that this has happened and, in many respects, it is probably just as well. Whether we like it or not, in any event, the time has passed...
...time for the gentle to move over and for the unoffending to admit that they have failed. A black revolution is upon us. Black people will now take their destiny into their own hands. They will not wait. They will not go slowly. They will not say, Thank you kindly. They will not look down politely at the floor...