Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fledged entertainment movement. TV versions of Taylor Caldwell's Captains and the Kings, Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers and Anton Myrer's Once an Eagle have been aired in the past few months, and at least a dozen more books are moving from the bestseller lists onto the tube...
Like a lot of silly movies, Voyage of the Damned is extracted from a serious idea-in this case one with historical foundation. In 1939, as part of a propaganda effort, the Nazis bundled Jews from all levels of German life, privileged to deprived, onto a Hamburg-Amerika liner, the St. Louis. The ship was bound out of Hamburg to Havana, Cuba, where the passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with...
...following day, the sloth again misread the schedule and hobbled into the exam room for Fiscal Policy, where he yawned for two hours, scribbled "life is fair, do nothing" in his blue book, then fell onto the floor and crawled out of the room on all fours...
...agreement was signed quietly. Almost as quietly as Congress had passed the Nonintercourse Act in 1790--an act that forbade the transfer of Indian lands without the consent of Congress. The act was soon forgotten, and Massachusetts and Maine spent the next 180 years gradually herding the Penobscot out onto Indian Island...
...energies to Democratic politics. At the 1964 convention she seconded Lyndon Johnson's nomination; later she served him as the nation's first black female ambassador-to Luxembourg. By 1970 she was a partner in a blue-chip Washington law firm. Along the way, Harris also broke onto the billion-dollar boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan...