Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Leo [Durocher] the Lip dashes onto the field to claim "Somebody done me wrong!"-or "On me fait tort!"-he is likewise raising the clameur, which is still known on the sport pages and the radio by a vestige of the original phrase: it's a "Hay Rube Bob !"-or a "Rhubarb...
...rushed an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson in Washington. Jackson, one of the three justices who dissented when the Supreme Court tossed out Mrs. Knauff's first appeal, looked at the clock and dictated an eleventh-hour hairbreadth reprieve for the woman. "Bundling this woman onto an airplane to get her out of this country within hours after the decision of the Court of Appeals," Justice Jackson wrote, ". . . would defeat [the Supreme] Court's jurisdiction [and] . . . would circumvent any action by Congress . . . to cancel her exclusion." Word of his action was quickly flashed by telephone...
...season, Manhattan galleries had bulged with abstract art done in the latest, or devil-may-care style. Some weeks, four and five such shows were running at once (TIME, Feb. 20). Serious and respected practitioners had taken to dribbling paint onto their canvases from buckets; others seemed to be painting blindfold, with bent spoons. The effects were startling, and in some avant-garde circles, awe-inspiring. Here, a few critics maintained, was the art of the future...
Jazz Master Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong is seldom at a loss for a word, and when he can't find one to suit him, he makes one up. Last week Satchmo was cashing in on his gift of gab by putting it onto paper. With three Armstrong articles due for publication in the U.S., he was also pecking away at an autobiography. A sample of loose-jointed Armstrong prose (and his own weird punctuation), as free & easy as his New Orleans trumpet, tells how he gave a young Italian singer a boost on his European tour last year...
Harvard men have always considered it a high honor to serve the University and have held onto their life-time positions. Since 1900 only 25 men have held the seven positions on the Corporation. Henry Pickering Walcott '58 served as a Fellow for 37 years until 1927, when failing eyesight forced him to retire...