Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months in the Senate, the Republican leadership had known that the Democrats would make a hard try to tack an income-tax-cutting amendment onto the Administration's bulky (875 pages) tax-revision bill. Georgia's Walter George had first proposed a $200 increase in the personal exemption, later cut it to $100 when the Republicans stood firm against it. But tax cuts are always the sweetest of music in an election year; at the last minute the G.O.P. leaders thought they were whipped...
...morning last week, cutaway-clad Tokutaro Kimura, Tokyo's opposite number to U.S. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, strode onto the flat, tiled roof of Japan's yellow brick Pentagon, past Japanese army, navy and air force officers snapped to attention, and said: "Peace cannot be attained with folded arms . . . It is the duty of our country to complete the arrangements through which it could defend itself with its own hands." With that, Japan officially began rearming...
...hall of Camp Wawbeek. Then chairs scraped and banged as the campers sat down to breakfast. But for these children, sitting down at table was no ordinary matter. Fifteen of them were already seated-in wheelchairs. Others carefully placed their crutches beside them on the floor before they edged onto their chairs...
...evangelist strode out onto the platform in dignified, double-breasted blue serge to speak his message. With him stood an interpreter, 27-year-old Wilfred Sybell, a German student at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute, who not only rendered Graham's tense message into German, phrase by phrase, but matched every Graham step and gesture. He pounded the Bible when Billy pounded, pointed to heaven when Billy pointed...
Before long Peter is putting in a good word for himself. At 40, he lives with a devoted spinster sister, who intends to hang onto her bachelor brother for dear life, and for life. Tired of fencing with her own love, Nora tells Peter about the TB jinx, and he waves it aside to propose...