Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ticking Minutes. In the state house of representatives, a Craig-controlled committee effectively smothered the Jenner forces' road-blocking bill. Thwarted there, the Jenner men made a last stand in the state senate by tacking an amendment onto the budget bill to prohibit the use of state funds for any toll-road purpose. When the budget got to the House-Senate Conference Committee, Craig announced that he would refuse to sign a budget bill that included the amendment. Instead, he would let the assembly adjourn, then immediately call it into special session and present a new budget bill...
Jorgensen, despite a week-old cough, held onto his lead until the final turn, when the Elis' ace, Rex Aubrey, overtook him. Yale finished first by half a body length, the Crimson placed second, and Duke Hust brought Dartmouth home only eight tenths of a second later. The Crimson time of 3:28.1 is a Harvard record...
...elbows his way into an elevator jammed with strangers will a moment later bow two or three ceremonial bows to an acquaintance. The Western-tailored businessman returns at night to a severely plain house of wood and paper. At the entrance he takes off his shoes, steps onto a straw mat (tatami), changes into a kimono and walks straight out of the Western world until tomorrow morning. The central room, except for mats and sliding panels and perhaps a low table, is without furniture; the eye is left free to contemplate the one picture and the single flicker of white...
German travelers hurrying through Frankfurt's bustling Rhein-Main airport stopped in surprise last week as the loudspeaker boomed: "Lufthansa flight from Hamburg to Munich has just arrived." Then most of them rushed to the big waiting-room window and looked out onto the field. There a light-blue Lufthansa Convair, with the familiar eagle painted on its nose, taxied in, completing the first scheduled test run for the line. Germany had her wings back...
...atmosphere, Chaplain Roget's spirit is badly battered. Fear paralyzes him in the midst of a vicious battle for a strongpoint. When Roget lets his driver die without trying to save him, and fails even to comfort the dying, the colonel's contempt becomes withering. Then, piled onto his knowledge of his own unworthiness, Roget is forced to admit to himself that he is tempted by the nymphomaniac wife of an American missionary...