Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patrol boats Maria Julia and Thor bore down on a pair of British trawlers that had dropped their nets within seven miles of Iceland's coast. The Icelanders had succeeded in getting nine men aboard the trawler Northern Foam when the British frigate Eastbourne charged at flank speed onto the scene. The nine boarders were quickly subdued, bundled into a motor launch and ferried back to Thor. But Thor's skipper refused to accept them, on grounds that the British had used coercion in removing them from the trawler. Reluctantly, the skipper of the Eastbourne took the Icelanders...
...finish with the wide lead of 4 min. i sec. Next day, before the gun, Mosbacher got astern of Columbia as Shields maneuvered toward the starting line. Both boats were on the starboard tack (wind over the right side), and Shields was trapped. He could not come about onto the port tack to get to the line without violating Mosbacher's right of way under racing rules. Mosbacher deftly drove Shields well beyond the marking buoy, then suddenly came about and crossed the line a full 20 sec. ahead...
...willing to back up its blunt diplomatic talk with military beef. To the Seventh Fleet of Vice Admiral Wallace ("Beak") Beakley steamed the carrier Essex and four destroyers from the Middle East, the big carrier Midway and the heavy cruiser Los Angeles from the West Coast. U.S. fighters rolled onto the ready line on Formosa, and Tactical Air Force sent out from the states a reinforcing squadron along with air cargo support planes from the Military Transport Service-all meaningful public warning that the U.S. means business...
...bottles, grabbed up sticks and bricks and anything else handy. Said one woman: "They knocked me into a shop doorway, and I felt something sharp cut into my arm. My husband and his friend were on the ground with a pile of colored men on them. A taxi swerved onto the pavement and scattered the blackies. When my husband got up he was holding his back, and I saw there was a knife...
During succeeding days and nights, marching in crazed, drunken columns, the mob smashed, looted and burned the Catholic chapels of continental ambassadors. The rioters wrecked breweries and distilleries, pumping raw gin onto the flames through the hoses of fire engines, rolling barrels of fat into the bonfires until the London sky blazed with a red glare not seen again until World War II. Methodically, the mob went to work on London's storied prisons-Newgate, Bridewell, Fleet -turning a stream of criminals loose. "London offered on every side," said an eyewitness, "the picture of a city sacked and abandoned...