Word: upon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Once upon a time, last week in fact, a meeting was held in the august headquarters of the U.N. to hear the grievance of an Arab diplomat. He reportedly pleaded: "We ask for gasoline to be allocated for diplomats because they are in a terrible situation." Said his loyal assistant: "We are using a lot of gas. We have to stand in line, and this is affecting our work...
Alas, his plight may have fallen upon sympathetic ears. A U.N. committee will discuss letting the diplomats use a pump in the building's basement so that they will be spared the gas-line woes of the natives...
...stepped out onto the Sea of Tranquility, the science-fiction writers had already been there for 2,000 years. But history is always more imaginative than any prophet. No one had ever dreamed that the first chapter of lunar exploration would end after only a dozen men had walked upon the moon...
...William Sims Bainbridge pointed out in his 1976 book The Spaceflight Revolution; a Sociological Study, space travel is a technological mutation that should not really have arrived until the 21st century. But thanks to the ambition and genius of Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev, and their influence upon individuals as disparate as Kennedy and Khrushchev, the moon-like the South Pole-was reached half a century ahead of time...
What, then, are these atrocities performed upon Shakespeare's defenseless classic? First, Sellars has combined the roles of Leonato and Friar Francis into a new character named "Monsieur Love" (Chris Clemenson)--not a mortal sin, since the new character lives up to his fabricated name by playing matchmaker, always presiding over some new combination of lovers, and since Clemenson plays the part with a consistently benign, endearing manner...