Word: upon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate kept circling back to urgent yet timeless questions. What makes a good member of society? The "higher purpose" his nation exhorts him to? Or the very specific moral and legal demands put upon him by his neighbors, his village and the ties of blood and land? In an era of megamachines and megastates, do we overrate the big in history-the Roman Empire, the papacy? If you wanted to change, really change, the world today, wouldn't you do well to "cultivate smaller gardens," the neighborhood community rather than the U.N.? The seminar concluded in stalemate...
Puffing on a Gold Label cigar, Talmadge closely followed the first week's action and then summed it up accurately enough by declaring: "They haven't learned anything" that was not agreed upon by him and the committee in advance. The pace may pick up for Talmadge as the hearings continue and he faces the testimony of Minchew and, possibly, that of his ex-wife Betty...
...setbacks-the death by drowning of his son Robert, the bitter divorce from Betty, a bout with alcoholism that once sent him reeling onto the Senate floor-Talmadge has little left but his political career, and he intends to fight for it. He defiantly reaffirmed his candidacy in February, upon emerging from the Long Beach Naval Medical Center after five weeks of treatment that he says cured his drinking problem. Two weeks ago, he spurned an offer by Senator Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the Ethics Committee, to drop the hearings if he would accept Senate censure...
...United States will be looked upon as warmongers," Carter said yesterday at a White House meeting...
...intellectual arrogance, were surprised when he singlehandedly turned around the country's mood from one of cynicism to one of confidence. The opposition and Progressive Conservative Party leader at the time was Robert Stanfield, a long-time member of Parliament from Eastern Canada. Stanfield's strategy rested upon a poorly-conceived, loosely-defined economic platform designed to control inflation. Stanfield said he planned to institute wage and price controls--but he didn't explain how he would implement them or how they would work. Trudeau hammered at Stanfield's equivocal policy, made leadership the key issue, and regained a majority...