Word: upon
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Heston warned his audience about the pressure to perform exerted upon them by society, even at an academic institution like Harvard...
...first action of dictators like Hitler and Stalin, upon seizing power, was to confiscate personal arms," Heston said...
...rare Harvarddefensive mistake, including two breakaway savesin the second period. The second came with 2:20left on the clock as freshman defenseman PeterCapouch stepped up to play a puck in the neutralzone with Bulldog junior forward Jeff Brow behindhim at the blue line. The puck ultimately ended upon Brow's stick, but Prestifilippo blocked thefive-hole...
While Blake went into the match intent upon redeeming his lone defeat of the season, Drada did not go down without a fight. After taking the first set, Blake nearly let him back into the match by losing the second...
...real Shakespeare had led another life, one tingling with clear parallels to his sonnets and plays? (See chart.) What if he were really a nobleman, an earl who could trace his roots to a time before William the Conqueror? And what if, unlike the man from Stratford-upon-Avon, we had an undeniable record of his education--a degree from Oxford University and a solid grounding in the law that would explain the plenitude of Tudor legalese in the plays? Again, unlike the Stratford man, this nobleman would have once resided in Venice, the site of several plays. An able...