Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cooney started off with a birdle and a par on the first two holes to go 2 up, and he held this lead at the end of the from nine with the medal score of 39. He was still 2 up going onto the sixteenth, where he took the hole to win the match...
...from 600 to 40, the Imam suddenly burst out of the palace gates flourishing a long scimitar. Before the sentries could get over their shock, he had slashed two of them dead, scrambled back into the palace. Exchanging the sword for a submachine gun, he led his 150 guards onto the roof of the palace and began a direct attack on the rebels. At the end of 28 hours, with 23 rebels and one palace guard dead, Colonel Ahmed Thalaya gave up. Abdullah, guarded by heavily armed slaves, taken for a ride in a jeep in the direction...
...cool veranda, with its silvery curtains and pale green furnishings, is always a quiet and tranquil place. There is a soft, slurring sound of slippered feet from within, and an aide comes to attention: "The President." The man who steps onto the veranda is all in black-black skullcap, black Chinese gown, black felt slippers. As the President of Nationalist China stands bowing and smiling politely, the visitor notices the thin, angular face and skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk...
...Communists want simply to take Quemoy and the Matsus, they have plenty of troops, artillery and small craft for the job. What they do not have is air cover. Last week the Reds completed a jet air base at Luchiao (opposite the Tachens) and promptly moved 40 MIGs onto it. Far to the south, Nationalists detected another base abuilding near Swatow, which may not be complete for perhaps six months. But when it is, it will provide Communist jet air cover, not only for Quemoy and Matsu, but over the whole Formosa Strait. Then it would not be the offshore...
Cost-cutting also ended the motor-man-conductor teams on streetcars, pushed onto the busy bus driver the added chores of change-making, direction-giving, etc. Nerves frayed by traffic, many drivers became rude and disagreeable, thereby turned still more customers away. Said the Houston Post: "Management and drivers . . . seem to be taking turnabout tapping nails into the coffin...