Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never seen a guy get such a beating. Finally he slumped down on his knees. We took the elevator to the second floor, picked him up and started to drag him out. All of a sudden he exploded, swung around with his handcuffs, knocked one cop cold onto the concrete and gashed another. It took the whole damn force on duty to stop him. Tough? I never seen a man that tough...
...Collapses!" groaned tired Julie. She folded onto a chair for a breather...
Gemmaux. They are called gemmaux, a word coined from gemmes (jewels) and émaux (enamels), and consist of bits of colored glass held together by colorless enamel. A gemmiste works from a painting, transcribing it onto a horizontal plate of glass (lighted from below) by juxtaposing and superimposing pieces of glass which have an incredible variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Virtually any intensity or shade of color can be obtained by superimposing colors in proper combinations...
...Attorney Michel went unanswered for several days, nobody at the hotel missed the tourists, but finally the police were called. Searching the rooms, the police found all in perfect order: baggage seemingly untouched, an unfinished letter on Mrs. Hallock's desk. In short order the case bounced onto front pages around the U.S. Alarmed at the potential damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed that the missing couple...
...days of Joe McCarthy were bad enough to live through, but somehow they seemed even worse in retrospect last week when Joe's familiar sneer and snarl found their way back into the news and onto TV screens. In the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room, McCarthy glared balefully at New Jersey's able William J. Brennan, appointed by Ike to the Supreme Court last fall (TIME, Oct. 8) and now up for Senate confirmation. "Do you approve of congressional investigations and exposure of the Communist conspiracy setup?" asked Joe. Replied Brennan (who, while a justice...