Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the soccer team runs onto Penn's River Field for its first road contest this morning, it will probably be facing its toughest opposition to date. Penn looks like a spoiler, with wins over strong Haverford and Princeton squads...
Just like football. With speed and elusiveness you can spin through any defensive backfield. Like those Cornell backs--all track stars. He realized, too late, that he should never have allowed his mind to wander onto football. It was not a topic he wanted to think about...
...looked down at the table, and noticed that the nickels in the secondary were overshifted. He placed them properly and spun the quarter again. This time it ran head on into the center backer-up and was thrown for a two-yard loss, slowly subsiding onto the beery table...
...word is that Bierman is slipping. If he runs onto just one little banana peel this fall, the otherwise fairminded citizens of Minneapolis will ride him out of town with zest...
...hitching the plot of the man who slyly deprives his wife of her lover onto that of the man who falls in love with his mere convenience of a wife, Playwright Verneuil less enriches the enjoyment than prolongs the agony. The whole story, being almost as involved as it is predictable needs two or three buildup scenes for every one that proves at all entertaining. In spots, Verneuil fans Affairs with fairly lively comments about life and breezy cackle about Washington; as the bride, Celeste Holm is deft and bright when not forced to be coy; as the scheming...