Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theme is most explicitly stated in The Last Mohican, a wry and witty fable about a serious-minded student named Fidelman who goes to Italy to write a monograph on Giotto. He scarcely steps from his train in Rome before his personal Old Man of the Sea latches onto him: one Shimon Susskind, a slat-thin Jewish refugee from, of all places, Israel ("The desert air makes me constipated...
...last of the fifth, B.U. pitcher Bill McCormick got his team's first run by belting a 375-foot homer onto the railroad tracks beyond the left field fence. This, it was recalled, is where Bob Elliott used to hit them...
Knowland not only has stern ideas about labor, he is also running for governor of California on a police-the-unions platform. With little prior warning to Democrats or the Administration, Knowland prepared to tack onto the measure a 14-amendment "labor bill of rights" that would, among other provisions, allow the recall of union officers upon a 15% membership petition, and postpone strikes when 15% objected...
...from Jamaica, L.I., decided that he could hold his own with the big boys. He spun his yo-yo through the required figures-spinner, walking-the-dog, breakaway, over-the-falls, around-the-world, three-leaf-clover, creeper, rock-the-baby-then unreeled 312 loop-the-loops to latch onto the title. ¶Haled into a Miami traffic court, Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, patriarch of pitchers, whose age is a matter of opinion (his opinion, 49; his mother's, 54), drew a 20-day jail sentence and a chance to work out his time on the ball field. For every...
With the ending of the experiment, vehicles again move both ways on Garden St. However, no left turns are permitted onto Garden from Appian Way and Mason St., the streets bounding the Radcliffe Yard...