Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tourist . . . What is wrong with "houses built under the reign of Francis I?" I have lived in just such a house . . . The plumbing was perfect. Who invented the saga of the French plumbing? I have a hunch it was a nation frustrated for having nothing but gadgets to hold onto in the emptiness of a hectic life devoted to dollar making...
British Champion Stirling Moss, driving a Mercedes-Benz, stopped to tinker with his fuel pump, was promptly grabbed by a couple of athletic male nurses, shoved onto a stretcher and carted off to an ambulance. "I'm O.K.," Moss protested. "Be quiet, boy," said his Spanish-speaking nurses, who could not understand him. Moss got a quick cooling-off with ice packs before he finally escaped back...
...spot in the TV ratings was proving easier to get than to hold onto. This week, for the first time, the lead position was captured by one of NBC's high-priced spectaculars: Max Liebman's Babes in Toyland, which went to the top with a Nielsen rating of 50.5. CBS's I Love Lucy grabbed second with 50.1. while Jackie Gleason (CBS), the former leader, dropped to third with 48.1. The rest of the Top Ten: 4) Toast of the Town (CBS). 45.5; 5) Dragnet (NBC). 44.1; 6) Disneyland (ABC). 42.4; 7) Milton Berle...
...history was full of attempts to play, smash, or steal it, and once, it did almost a better job of stopping Yale than the football team. I 1947, an overzealous Eli fan ran onto the filed and tried to crash through the cowhide heads. There was a tremendous bang, but the Yalie ended up unconscious and the big drum still intact...
...modern style construction would not clash with existing buildings, Chermayeff added, "because the essence of Harvard is not a particular style but the blending of styles." He noted "the archway entering an open area, and the view onto a closed quadrangle." There are no enclosed courtyards in the student design...