Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play varsity ball.) Meyers, a good T ball-handler and passer, brought a leg injury out of the Northwestern game severe enough to keep him on the bench while his mates bowed to Dartmouth. Vann is a bullet-passer, who is fortunate enough to have ends who can hold onto the ball. Because of line deficiencies, the first-year Cadet has been buried far behind scrimmage several times in the opening contests...
Then Jerry Owen himself bounced onto the stage with a shout of joy--his expensive suit and spacious bay window hinted that the path of righteousness hadn't been too thorny. "Aren't you glad for Jesus?" he shouted, but the audience remained silent. Owen admonished "If you don't say 'amen,' I'm gone come down and get you." Apparently the threat worked, for a little later, when Owen asked everyone who wasn't there to say 'amen,' there was a chorus of automatic amens from the audience...
...morning in a nearby city, a man in his early 40's awoke and dressed to start another day at work. As he was eating breakfast, he suddenly pitched forward onto the floor, unconscious. Ten hours later, he died in a hospital without ever regaining consciousness...
...white horses) and two tanks and three armored cars (he had counted on 30 Sherman tanks), and started for Buenos Aires. When the column stopped outside the Colegio Militar, loyal troops fired. The rebels leaped from their vehicles and ran. Loyal forces then lobbed a few mortar shells onto the Palomar runways, and the fighting was over. Casualties: one dead, seven wounded...
...wire grid does this switching job. It is hooked up, through the proper electronic apparatus, to the signal that comes over the air. When the signal tells it that certain electrons represent red, the wires of the grid are charged with enough electrical potential to focus the electron beam onto a line of red phosphor. When "green" electrons come along, it switches them to green phosphor, etc. So, jumping from phosphor to phosphor, the electron beam paints its picture in full color...