Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offensive, recruiting and raiding uninhibitedly. Last week he predicted a teamsters' membership of "in excess of 3,000,000" by 1960. Long the No. i union boss on the West Coast, he is building a $3,500,000 headquarters in Washington, an indication that he expects to step onto a broader stage...
Bloody Nuisance. Britain's willingness to discuss the recognition question at the Korean conference rested on the tiny word "etc." tacked onto Article 60 by the Communists. The much more urgent objective-Korean unity-is regarded in London as nothing more than a bloody nuisance. British editorialists almost unanimously regard Syngman Rhee as a dangerous man and John Foster Dulles as too ready to give in to him. Then, to rouse these feelings even higher, came the Aug. 7 U.N. declaration that all 16 members who fought in Korea would jointly resist a Communist breach of the armistice...
...been more spectacular if May himself had written the script. Onetime (1947) U.S. Open Champion Lew Worsham. needing a birdie on the final 410-yd., par4 hole to tie Virginia's Chandler Harper, smashed out a 270-yd. drive. He then calmly took a wedge, plopped the ball onto the green and into the hole for an eagle 2. Jubilantly aghast, Worsham murmured: "The luckiest shot I ever had." Lucky or not, it was worth $25,000 to Lew Worsham, whose 72-hole score was 278 v. Harper...
...themselves a campus. Both former teachers at Vermont's Putney School, they had long since come to the conclusion that a little creative manual labor is just what modern education needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring Fork Valley, 30 miles northwest of Aspen...
...bathing suit, lie on his operating table, and talk. She explains: "His idea was that he could tell a lot about your mental tensions by watching your body movements while you talked. And, sure enough, I'd find my arms writhing like snakes when I'd get onto certain subjects. After three months I stopped going to him because I was feeling so much better and I didn't want to be dependent on him or anybody...