Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specific intent of the measure had somehow been overlooked in the patriotic talkfest. Though it had originally been framed as a response to the burning of a U.S. flag in Manhattan's Central Park last May, the bill as passed covered "publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling or trampling upon" the banner but did not in fact mention the act of flag flammation. That form of desecration will doubtless be reproscribed, with appropriate oratory, in the Senate...
With furrowed brow, Williams called for a $10,000 ceiling on all direct farm subsidies. "Based upon these large payments," he said, "it is obvious that the small family-type farmer is not the real beneficiary of our present farm program, but rather the Government is subsidizing an expansion of the corporate type of farming operation...
...Tampa, Fla., Dayton, Atlanta and Boston, all of them already scarred by riots this season, city officials and Negro community leaders have hit upon one device that is at least promising: the formation of "white hat" patrols, young Negroes enlisted to police their own neighborhoods, thus reducing hazardous friction between ghetto dwellers and police...
...geometrical face paintings of the Caduveo Indians, Lévi-Strauss recognized not meaningless makeup, but a subtle statement of man's place in the world: "The face paintings confer upon the individual his dignity as a human being: they help him to cross the frontier from nature to culture, and from the 'mindless' animal to the civilized man." He decided that, "without any play on words," both the Caduveo and the Bororo "could be called in their different ways 'learned societies...
Holocaust & Diaspora. The First Temple was built by King Solomon as a dwelling place for God on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem around 966 B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in the 6th century B.C., but a Second Temple was erected upon the same site in 515 B.C., after the return from exile. This Temple, in turn, was destroyed by the Romans when they turned Jerusalem into a flaming holocaust and sent its inhabitants into the Diaspora. Although most Jews fled the city, a few remained to bewail the fate of God's people at the Temple site...