Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Landing Party. On landing day last week, in the dawn's early light, MacArthur picked his way through a confusion of men in helmets and life jackets, climbed onto the admiral's bridge chair. He wore his old braided, sweat-stained garrison...
...Democratic bosses had figured they could win the governorship with a nobody-particularly since they had gone to the trouble of arranging a mayoralty election in New York City to make sure of a big Democratic majority downstate.*Dewey's change of plans put the game onto a new table; New York had suddenly become a major political battleground...
...from Hong Kong. He also offered Californians his opinion that the U.S. "very likely" will become involved in a war with Red China. Then the general installed six-month-old Cynthia Louise ("Butterball") with in-laws and herded second wife Anna and 19-month-old Claire Anna ("Sugar") onto a plane for Washington, where he had a little business with the State Department...
...past decade, such loutish antics have kept Truth or Consequences among the top-ranking radio shows. Last week, sponsored by Philip Morris, hearty, toupee-wearing M.C. Ralph Edwards moved his slapstick-and-bladder show onto television (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). "This is just the genesis, the little seed," he boasted of his first TV performance. "I have the feeling that, within the first half-dozen shows, we'll get into the top five TV programs...
...drawing board in Seattle months ago, Stanley Sayres's two-ton, 29-ft. hydroplane, Slo-Mo-Shun IV, looked to him like the fastest boat in the world. When he got it onto Lake Washington this summer for its first official run, Owner Sayres rocketed to a world record 160 m.p.h. (TIME, July...