Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, as if to sober Socialists, who sometimes talk as if the Red Chinese are just aroused democratic workers on the British model, the government released an official account of the tortures inflicted on British prisoners in Korea by their Chinese captors, including such incidents as taking prisoners onto the frozen Yalu River and pouring water over their bare feet until they froze to the icy surface. The incidents were of a kind painfully familiar to Americans, but rarely mentioned by the British press or government, for fear the truth might be considered too inflammatory...
...good fortune," the writer recalls, "to witness the most unpredictable of ballets, a dance of dedicated ferocity, the grave elaboration of a magic rite. In the hodgepodge of paint tubes by the hundreds, of brushes as long as halberds, of spilt oil cans, Mathieu, demiurge of destiny, summoned onto his canvas in a few hours (exactly the time taken by the fighting) first the army of the King of France . . . then the armies of the coalition; above there spurted onto the canvas splashes of larger characters and many colors, used for their own sake just as much...
...also chipped both elbows then, however when he was tossed from the ring onto a non-existent canvas which turned out to be concrete. The injury turned him into a coach...
After practicing law in Texas until 1927, Clark moved onto the national scene with appointments to jobs in the Department of Justice. During the war he served as coordinator of alien enemy control under the Western Defense Command...
...five days the landing craft thrashed across the rough waters between transports and the muddy beaches. First loaded were the islands' 14,500 civilians. They swarmed down the treeless slopes, each labeled with a white cloth tag, shoes tied onto feet with string to keep them from pulling off in the ankle-deep mud. Each carried a pathetic bundle of possessions-straw bedding, aluminum kitchenware, a canteen or blackened teakettle, and (almost invariably) a rose-patterned chamber pot. Few seemed sad at leaving their cold, wind-whipped islands...