Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, indignantly dismiss press reports that the war is in stalemate as "nothing more than propaganda." To his critics on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is holding hearings to prove its contention that congressional authority in foreign affairs is being trampled upon, Johnson insisted he was within his constitutional rights to conduct undeclared war in Viet Nam. He reminded them of the broad Tonkin Gulf resolution, passed three years ago, in which Congress approved "all necessary steps, including the use of armed force...
...clearly in favor of keeping all options open. The Republicans, of course, have as yet failed to come up with a cohesive position that offers any reasonable alternative to present policy. At this point in the political calendar, however, their best strategy is to wait upon events; whatever happens, it seems unlikely that they will adopt an extreme antiwar position. Meanwhile, Romney is looking ahead, and it seems likely that in coming months moderate G.O.P. leaders will coalesce behind...
...most encouraging notes of the visit came when Kiesinger spoke at a National Press Club luncheon. Said he: "We no longer look upon the United States as the big brother to whom one comes running as soon as something goes wrong." If the syntax was Germanic, the sentiment was distinctly and hopefully Atlantic...
Meanwhile near Granite Park Chalet, another grizzly slipped like a wraith upon a camp site pitched near a garbage dump purposely baited so that tourists could get a close look at the bears. The grizzly alternately mauled Julie Helgeson, also 19, and her companion, who kept still through the agony of two attacks and thus saved himself. Bitten on the shoulder, legs and buttocks, he heard the girl being dragged away, screaming so loudly that other campers at the chalet heard her anguished cries. After the survivors told their horrifying tales, two grizzlies were quickly slain before the evident killers...
...city's electricity, gas and telephones were knocked out. Rescue workers and airmen from Eielson Air Force Base relied upon radio communications -aided by Fairbanks' numerous "ham" operators. Some 7,000 victims were evacuated to the higher ground of the University of Alaska five miles away. About 2,500 were shuttled by air to Anchorage 260 miles to the south. Hundreds of huskies and other breeds kept by dog-loving Alaskans, left to survive on their own, raised an eerie cacophony of howls through the nights. As the dogs grew hungrier, humans had to fight them off with...