Word: upon
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...Upon seeing that he was not genetically predisposed to Alzheimer's, he picked up the phone to call his family with the good news...
...degrade even those who speak out against them. A friend of mine, stalwart of the Republican information network that he is, regularly forwards to me chain letters that proclaim themselves revelations, bringing real Americans the news withheld by the sinister liberal media. Several of these letters have seized upon the apparently shocking fact that Senator Obama’s middle name is a name common in the Middle East—among Muslims! These letters, of course, appeal only to those willing to inhale alarmist propaganda without a moment’s worth of fact-checking. Yet the true disappointing...
...Tovmasyan, a management student at Faculty of Arts and Sciences, reported to the police that upon leaving Grendel’s Den, an unknown white male accosted him and asked him for a cigarette. The individual then punched Tovmasyan in the mouth and attempted to take...
...provide fresh insight into the things that make up war. But it sometimes veers toward a laundry list or a museum description. The second section of the book, which deals with the implements of war, sometimes loses its momentum due to the weight of the nouns that are loaded upon it. Komunyakaa excels at unemotionally describing scenes and letting the reader draw his own associations from the poetry. However, in poems like “The Clay Army,” he doesn’t add anything beyond the basic historical facts one could find in a textbook...
...like the next president, the most important thing is that we act upon this interest and make sure that there are opportunities and avenues for this excitement and involvement to be meaningful,” Purcell said...