Word: upon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senator criticized the rates as the result of "egg-headed economic theory" designed to put the burden upon the small consumer...
Councillor William H. Walsh noted the lack of incentive for the utility company to follow the Council's exhortations, but the Council called upon the "good will" of the company towards the community...
...Upon first sight of Damon, the voracious Crimson licked its collective lips. In warmups he conceded a lack of power by throwing an array of timid breaking balls. Marcel Durand, the Crimson leadoff batter made the hurler look even more vulnerable when he laced a single into right field. But for the next eight-and-one-third innings, Damon was untouchable...
...life. Once this shaman-showman had seized kids' minds, he could raid their piggy banks. And on that mountain of pennies he could build an empire. His cartoons and feature films sired comic books, toys, hit songs (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, When You Wish upon a Star, Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah) and the ubiquitous Mickey Mouse watch. While other moguls ground out 40 or 50 pictures a year, then consigned them to rot in the vaults, Disney made a few superior films that could be recycled for a new audience of children every seven years...
...other people were working the old Disney wonder, and making it work at the box office. The Star Wars trilogy was putting a high-tech spin on the old Disney legerdemain. So, brilliantly, were Steven Spielberg's films: Close Encounters of the Third Kind used When You Wish upon a Star as a theme, and E.T. was "Bambi from Outer Space...