Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen went on: "We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics so that we can show the world that we're not afraid of the future. . . In the old days the monarch led his soldiers onto the battle field. . . I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else - I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of-nations." She spoke for seven minutes, and her appearance...
...took over the legislature (the party now holds 15 of 24 seats). In 1954 he got the title of Prime Minister, and last year he was knighted. He boasts that "the spirit of feudalism that ruled Barbados is as dead as Queen Anne." But with 230,000 people jammed onto an island 14 by 21 miles in size, Barbados is still among the poorer areas of the West Indies. Its best hope: relaxation of immigration bars by other islands once federation begins working. Adams will be among the top three men in the dominant Federal Labor Party, along with Jamaica...
Last week Edelman put his therapy to the test. He cajoled his patient out to New York's La Guardia Field, picked up a pair of round-trip tickets to Detroit, and led Don onto a plane. By the time they landed in Detroit, both travelers were convinced that Edelman had something on the ball. Don enjoyed the trip so thoroughly that he even entertained the notion of continuing the joy ride all the way to Los Angeles. Hypnotist Edelman took a squint at the future and had no doubts at all about what he saw. Said...
Roman Catholics and high-church Protestants may give rosaries in all shapes and sizes-from an "ecclesiastically approved recording rosary permanently encased in plastic" and designed to clip onto the gearshift lever of one's car, to a "pearl and silver finished rosary" with "a special clasp that converts it into a most attractive double-strand necklace...
...Nevertheless, steady-nerved and set of jaw, he worked without letup for more than 24 hours. At evening of the second day, word got through that the two boys had been saved by being lashed to the tops of oak trees. His wife, he learned, had survived by scrambling onto the floating roof of the collapsed Clark house, but the children, though she desperately tried to hold on to them, were swept away...