Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carmine Can Make This One." By the time the delegates streamed onto the floor Friday afternoon for the big votes, the lines were fairly well drawn. Estes Kefauver had the whooping support of delegates from the farm belt and the power-hungry West. The South and some big-state, big-city machines (with the notable exception of Jim Finnegan's labor-conscious Pennsylvania) were trying to settle on a stop-Kefauver candidate...
...Margaret and Jill are having a quiet chat. Suddenly, a bitter accusation flashes above the gin. Margaret, hiking her skirt, declares that Jill has brought a flea into her life. It seems that the flea-not an "ordinary" London one but "some great black foreign brute"-sprang from Jill onto Margaret. But why was Jill harboring the flea in the first place? Because a young sailor had given it to her-not intentionally, of course, but because he and Jill went to bed together, and (to put it briefly) "fleas hop." By the end of the story, poor Jill...
Arkansas (26): Officially uncommitted, the delegates figure to follow Governor Orval Faubus onto the bandwagon, give 26 unit-rule votes to Stevenson...
...fevered brows and sweat-stained shirts; air-conditioning equipment has been stepped up to a capacity equaling 2,000,000 Ibs. of ice daily, will lower the temperature by ten degrees. To replace the backbreaking wooden chairs on the convention floor, the Democratic National Committee has latched onto 2,500 softly cushioned seats from the defunct Paradise Theater-"Thus," says a party publicity puff, "enabling our delegates to concentrate more intently on the very important decisions under consideration...
...lines, i.e., they fill out each line flush to the right-hand margin. Then it is pasted on a sheet, photographed and printed on an aluminum plate, much as a photographic negative is printed. Mounted on a press, the plate transfers the image to a hard rubber roller, then onto the newsprint. To start publishing, the Record spent less than $250,000 (including $140,000 for actual equipment) against an estimated $600,000, at least, for a paper using a conventional plant. (However, when circulation goes beyond 20,000 the cost of additional electronic apparatus for the new process begins...