Word: upon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Upon reaching the conclusion of Lisa Taggart's editorial ruminations about her recent experience in an elevator (August 8), I was astonished to find that she and her friends had completely missed first base in attempting to understand the Black man's refusal to push the elevator button...
...riptide of Soviet unrest. It is midsummer in Washington, and the President is heavily engaged in trench warfare with Congress. But a part of his mind is on the extraordinary events in the Communist world and the possibility that before the year ends, he might be called upon to help bolster his weary Soviet counterpart. Strange bedfellows. Strange world these days...
Reality: Terrorists are the people who place bombs in the suitcases of their unsuspecting girlfriends. A death is a sacrifice to God. A dead brother is a martyr, not a victim. Bartering with terrorists constitutes either a bill too large to pay or a technique too unreliable upon which to depend...
...ever cross the mind of the people who run Israeli intelligence that something might go wrong? We have to believe yes. Is it too much then to ask whether, upon discovering possible faults in its plan, Israel knew that it was in a no-lose situation...
...Vorkuta in the far north and Karaganda in the Kazakhstan Republic in Central Asia. And there were rumblings that railroad workers might join in on Aug. 1, an action that could paralyze the country. "Such developments create a threat to the realization of the great plans we have decided upon," warned Gorbachev, referring to his economic-reform program...