Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Exactly 13½ hours after the DC-6 touchdown at Mount Pocono, a young American walked onto the 19th floor of a commercial office building in downtown Bogota and pumped three hollow-point bullets into Octavio González, 38, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Colombia. González slumped to the floor dead. The gunman quickly reloaded and, while secretaries scattered, fired several more shots before putting the revolver to his head and killing himself...
...other Gestapo agents. They had mounted machine guns in front of them. I saw Ukrainians digging a pit some 15 yards from the guns. You could hear voices and crying. Later the guards began to take people out in small groups of ten and twelve. They pushed them onto planks set over the pit. Then you could hear the machine guns. A continuous rat-ta-ta-tat. It was Menten with the two Germans...
...dinner, we got off onto what it is like to be a black woman," Carla Herriford '76, ABRW recording secretary, remembers. "Anything negative we had to say, she had something positive to say. She was really inspirational." Herriford's most emotional experiences with ABRW--the ones that bring the most excitement and warmth into her boice--come from meetings with other women. "There were times last spring we were on the verge of crying, we were so happy just to see a room full of black women...
...best man at her 1974 wedding to Jack Haley Jr., will share the spotlight with Liza, 30, singing, dancing and clowning in a 1½-hour cabaret act at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. Bubbles Liza: "I've been dreaming about this ever since Sammy jumped onto the stage in the middle of my act at Harrah's in Tahoe a few years ago. We had a ball." Considering the tariff, Diplomat revelers can only hope they will...
...across the screen for hours on end. The unit can also make its own doodles. Fact (around $400), another system that uses cartridges to extend the range, may be a valuable teaching aid when it comes on the market next year. It flashes questions about history, science or literature onto the screen; they are answered by pressing multiple-choice buttons...