Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew where to begin the slowdown, went back to the Capitol to take aim on a Democratic special: the $1 billion Community Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects, which Banking and Currency Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright had reported onto the Senate floor for speedy action. Before the day was done, stolid Bill Knowland's slowdown had rolled into a fast-moving Republican revolt against the well-laid plans of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...long swells of the Indian Ocean, six days south of Suez, bound for Australia with 1,088 passengers-mostly German and Maltese emigrants-and a crew of 200. At 8:45 p.m. trouble broke out in the engine room. A disconnected fuel line spurted a torrent of oil ?. onto red-hot exhaust pipes. Within seconds, the engine room was a coiling mass of flames. The engine-room crew were driven out before they could even shut off the spurting...
...were Clark and his teen-agers that in August 1957, ABC put them on the network. To get on the show, teen-agers have hitchhiked from as far away as Texas, and one Buffalo family did not notice a son was missing until he rock 'n' rolled onto the screen. Last month American Bandstand's Trendex rating nearly equaled the combined totals of the two rival networks...
...trouble gaining much of a pay boost. With skidding sales, the industry can make a good case that it cannot afford it. Furthermore, there are rumblings of discontent within Reuther's own U.A.W. In all, 115,000 autoworkers are laid off. and the rest sorely want to hold onto their paychecks. Last week automakers reported that they were getting hundreds of heretical, anti-Reuther letters from workers worried about a strike...
...written a primer-in a sense a how-to-do-them-down-yourself book. It does not claim the philosophic depth of Theodore Draper's The Roots of American Communism (TIME, March 18, 1957), which argued that the party was to some extent a native heresy grafted onto the root stock of American radicalism, but it is valuable as a sober piece of accountancy by an official whose job, among others, is to help protect federal property -including the Constitution...