Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moral indignation, the city fathers of Paris once ordered a roundup of vagrants. The police herded together a motley crowd of itinerant peddlers, rag and iron merchants, sidewalk salesmen. Loaded down with their bundles, dragging handcarts behind them, they straggled past Montmartre, cut through the Porte de Clignancourt and onto the plain of Saint-Ouen, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks to cracked...
...seven seas on the fuselage of a Pan American Boeing 707-and officially ushered the U.S. into the commercial jet age. With water still dripping from a steel plate installed to protect it from Mamie Eisenhower's blow, the newly christened jet clipper America was pulled out onto the apron while 6,000 guests looked on. An hour later the plane screamed down a 7,000-ft. runway and off to Baltimore, where it took aboard 41 notables (including Pan Am President Juan Trippe and 33 newspaper and magazine executives) for a junket to Brussels. Just seven hours...
...shunted on a day-to-day basis from farm work to military or industrial duties. Ultimately, private property is to be utterly abolished and already the most "advanced" communes have compelled the peasants to surrender the personal garden plots they were allowed to keep when they were forced onto "cooperative farms" three years ago. (The problem of individually owned fruit trees, says the Central Committee tolerantly, can be left for settlement later...
...later boasted a $50,000 bank account and a $25,000-a-year income from Detroit real estate deals. After a wartime hitch in the Navy, merely making money was not enough for Stevens, and he drifted into Detroit's Drama Guild. Before long, he bought his way onto Broadway, joined the board of ANTA, then became a member of the Playwrights' Company. He impressed such topflight playwrights as Maxwell Anderson and Robert Sherwood as a wonderful source of cash. Stevens now runs syndicates of theatrical angels and archangels, one of which put together $540,000 for this...
...Vagabond shut the door of his room behind him and fell onto the couch. He kicked off one shoe, listened to the thump with which it hit the floor, kicked off the other one, and listened to it thump...