Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coroner* of East Baton Rouge Parish (i.e., county), arranged for Williams to get commitment papers ready, then sped up the 80-mile, Huey-built Air Line Highway to Baton Rouge to sign them. While she was on the way, Coroner Williams and Parish Sheriff Bryan Clemmons ordered two detectives onto the highway at the parish line to wait for Earl Long, who would surely soon be racing for Baton Rouge to reclaim his power...
From its grey stone headquarters at 1 Gorky Street, Moscow, Intourist is run by balding, stocky Vladimir Ankudinov, fiftyish, who has managed to hold onto his job for seven years. Says Ankudinov, with a gold-toothed smile: "I am what you would call a Soviet businessman." He has plenty of business. Intourist runs 18 hotels throughout Russia, has more than 8,000 employees, handles all accommodations, meals, transportation and incidentals for half a million visitors to Russia each year (most of them from the East European countries...
...Joint Congressional Committee, thereby evading his responsibility under the Atomic Energy Act to keep the committee "fully and currently informed" about AEC matters. Anderson was openly annoyed on several occasions when Strauss released headline-making nuclear news, beating the congressional committee to the punch. But every time Anderson moved onto the offensive, Lewis Strauss, incapable of quietly accepting criticism or the hint of criticism, fought back with all his natural aggressiveness...
...room hotel, hostels and residence halls for students, a sports center leading onto a vast open-air garden...
...when your hands are wobbling, but when your feet start wobbling, too . . ." On that nervous note, the teen-age Bolivian violinist walked onto the stage of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to play before the world's toughest violin jury* in the finals of the famed Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition. With his boyishly chubby face creased in an intent frown, he fiddled his way through the Sibelius Concerto in D Minor, Bartok's Rumanian Dances, and Darius Milhaud's Royal Concerto. Two days later, the world's most prestigious violin prize...