Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rioting that began in Bombay (TIME, Jan. 30) spread right across India. Mobs squatted on railroad tracks to halt trains, crowded onto airfields to prevent planes from landing, blocked roads with trees, broke into jails and freed convicts, looted stores, ripped down telephone wires. Newspapers that had given Nehru steady support were charging the government with "moral bankruptcy." The prestige of the Congress Party had never been lower...
Then the traditional torch, carried by Italian Skater Guido Caroli, circled the arena. Head high and chest proudly puffed, Caroli turned his eyes to honor his President, Giovanni Gronchi. That salute was his undoing; he tripped and sprawled awkwardly before the presidential box. Somehow he hung onto the torch. Seconds later he skated on to light the great bowl of fire that will blaze until the seventh Winter Olympic Games are over...
...Kefauver, Clement thinks he can win the favor of front-running Candidate Adlai Stevenson. With the help of his great admirer, Harry S. Truman, Clement hopes to land the coveted convention assignment as Democratic keynote speaker. From that platform Clement is certain that his talented tongue can get him onto a Stevenson-Clement ticket...
...coffee can. The Falcon is a good example of the complication of missiles. The fighter plane that carries them is guided by ground radar until it is 20 miles from an invading bomber. Then the fighter's own radar picks up the target, locks onto it, and analyzes its relative motion. During this phase, the slim Falcons under the fighter plane's wing are quiet and lifeless. When the target approaches the Falcons' range, the pilot throws a switch, and the Falcons wake up. Their little gyros spin; the antennae in their noses search for the enemy...
...Rauh who put the Washington Post onto the story. In the belief that a Pulitzer Prize plum had dropped into their laps, top Post executives saw Hughes repeatedly, without seeing through him. Once, when things seemed about to come to a head, Publisher Phil Graham rushed to tell Attorney General Herbert Brownell that the paper might have to call him at any hour of the day or night with a startling story. Graham could not tell him about it, but a baffled Brownell obliged with his night telephone number...