Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after 10 o'clock one morning last week, a frail man in a light grey suit stepped out of a Soviet-built IL-14 transport onto the tarmac of Belgrade's Zemun Airport. Dutifully, the visitor surrendered himself to a welcoming bearhug from his stocky, sun-bronzed host, accepted bouquets from four dewy-eyed young Pioneers, and acknowledged the salute of a snappy, blue-uniformed honor guard. Then Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito headed off across the Yugoslav capital in a motorcade whose first three cars were a Rolls...
Krishnamachari rose in Parliament to announce that there would be "some scraping and pruning of the edges of the plan. Future planning will be motivated by realism." Krishnamachari declared that the government was still determined to hold onto the core of the plan-power, coal, steel and transport-but he warned bluntly: "Make no mistake: we need large amounts of foreign aid to save even the core...
...committee's proposals on prostitution were less radical, as if the best that could be expected was to make the whores less visible. The committee warned against "too rigorous" a prosecution against women who loitered in pubs, on the grounds that this would only drive more of them onto the streets. The London Times agreed that "it would be wrong to punish the prostitute for being a prostitute," and the Spectator recalled Nietzsche: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong...
Playing with the authority of a Wimbledon championship behind her, Althea lost not a set as she worked her way onto the center court for the payoff match with California's Louise Brough. A canny and experienced campaigner who had won the title herself just ten years ago, Louise tried every trick she knew to stave off the inevitable. She pounded Althea's weak backhand, only to watch it grow stronger. She tried to step up the speed of her own serves, only to make deadly double faults. Taking her time, getting more depth on her shots...
...gripped four tubes in either hand, emp tied them in one mighty salvo, next grabbed the sake bottle of turpentine and upended it over the canvas, then dropped to his knees, began fiercely swabbing the surface with a towel, finally swarmed directly onto the canvas itself...