Word: upon
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...women in her book, and she points out that most self-mutilators are women, use everything from irons to scissors to inflict pain upon themselves. Many have highly ritualized cuttings, in which they set out the instruments of their own torture as carefully as a surgeon setting out her tools. The images in the book are unnervingly graphic, and Strong spares the reader as little as the victims spare themselves. In one chilling episode, a woman "sliced one [arm] open from wrist to elbow down to the muscle and burned herself so badly she required a skin graft...
...Upon finishing the computerized version of the Graduate Management Assessment Test (GMAT) between October 12 and 21, 400 test takers received an unexpected error message instead of their scores...
...Once upon a time, women weren't allowed in Lamont and Neil Armstrong could take a step for Man and leap for Mankind without fretting too much over whether his statement was gender-neutral. In those days, a student sat at his desk to write his paper on the history of mankind. A few weeks after he handed in the paper, this student's professor said to his class, "If anyone wants to, he can pick up his paper after the lecture." The student received his paper, was satisfied with a Gentleman's "C" and went to a Final Club...
...phenomenon of unruly bikers is not confined to Quincy Street. It is upon entering Harvard Yard that the real game of hit-or-miss begins...
...video elaborated upon such human rights abuses as violations in prisons and jails, detention of asylum seekers, the death penalty and excessive police brutality...