Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was little doubt that the final U.N. beachhead in Korea would be smaller than last week's 140-mile defense perimeter. But U.S. troops have held small beachheads before. In 1944, at Anzio, 62,000 U.S. troops crowded onto a beachhead 18 miles wide and 13 miles deep, held it until they had massed enough strength for a breakthrough...
Charbonneaux had small hopes of getting the hand for the Louvre, since the Greek government no longer permits its antique treasures to leave the country, but he did not especially care: "Even if a whole arm was discovered we probably would not want to fit it onto our statue because it would spoil the whole effect. A statue without a head and with only one arm looks rather awkward...
...Since the Bible says that some who are alive when Christ enters His Kingdom will see the end of this world, it is clear to Witnesses that it is likely to happen any day now. Obviously then, the most important thing that a man can do is scramble onto the right side of the fence before Armageddon-the last and decisive battle between Satan and Jehovah...
Warshaw takes the speed and racket of modern city life as matters of course, believes that a painter needs to get the same dash and smash onto his canvases. His test of a picture: "Can a spectator, after driving 30-miles-an-hour up a neon-lit, billboard-splattered street, stop off at a gallery and see a painting without slowing down visually?" He hopes that, with his own work, the answer will always...
...much to change Leo's status. The autobiography shows him to be an arrogant dilettante claiming an exhaustive knowledge of subjects with which he had had the briefest brushes. At 22, he dismissed history as inaccurate rubbish. At 28, he put all the philosophy worth knowing onto two sheets of note paper...