Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slender girl of 18 when she first walked onto the stage of Oslo's National Theater to make her operatic debut in d'Albert's Tiefland. She had only a small voice, but critics agreed that its quality was pleasing and that she was "very musical.'' After that she made rapid strides, and the world beyond Oslo inevitably heard of Kirsten Flagstad. Last week, 40 years to the day after her debut and after one of the great operatic careers of the 20th century. Soprano Flagstad sang goodby on the same stage...
...Internal Security Subcommittee the very next day. Said Hoover: "At no time was the FBI a party to an agreement to promote White. ...He was a member of the U. S. Monetary Commission, (whose) premises are extraterritorial, and the FBI does not have any right to follow any ... person onto (its) property. ...We were certainly hampered...
...boil over her charcoal pot, Mrs. Ko II Nam took a housewife's chance and strolled out to pass the time with a neighbor in the alleys of Pusan's cluttered, teeming Yongju district. When Mrs. Ko returned, the rice had boiled over, the charcoal had spilled onto the floor, and the straw matting of her tiny shack was afire. Moments later the entire house was ablaze. As neighbors tried to put out the fire, a brisk wind whipped the flames against the houses next door, and soon they too were burning. On the fire roared for twelve...
Some Frenchmen wondered how works of so little worth could have got onto the Salon's distinguished walls. But those who had followed the Salon through half a century of success suspected that the organizers of this year's show, like those who put forward the "wild beasts" of 1905. were quite happy that a row had been kicked...
...Korea, part of the low stage collapsed, easing some 40 performers to the ground. In the ensuing pandemonium, the orchestra leader fled the theater in tears. Then Nixon took the situation in hand, leaped to his feet and led a round of applause. After the entertainers clambered back onto the remainder of the stage and finished the show, Nixon commented: "Another example of the courage of the Korean people...