Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sailors also placed first in the Hoyt Trophy, which was contested at Brown on the 14th. King's Point, last year's North American champion, was favored to top the field of ten. The favorites were leading by one point going into the last race, but could not hold onto the lead as Harvard sailed into the sunset with a two point victory and the Hoyt Trophy...
Upon reaching the house, the monks greeted the owners, a farmer and his wife, and requested some tea. As they sat in the kitchen a two-year-old boy ran into the room and hopped onto a monk's lap. The boy correctly called the disguised traveler "a lama of Sera," and identified two other members of his party as well. The child, named Tenzin Gyatso, spoke to the lamas in the court dialect of Lhasa, unknown to anyone in his district...
...Crimson trotted onto the field to start the first ten-minute period of overtime play, the players looked poised and almost amused rather than worried...
...plummeting by a startling 26 points on Tuesday-the worst setback it had suffered in nearly six years. Now, at brokers' booths and trading stations, everybody was fretting about what worried investors would do next. "We're going to get sellers," said one broker as he strode onto the floor...
DIED. Charlie Smith, reputedly 137 and the oldest U.S. citizen on Social Security records; of heart and kidney failure; in Bartow, Fla. Smith claimed that he was born in Liberia, was lured onto a slave ship in 1854 and sold to a Texas rancher named Charlie Smith. Freed under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Smith said he became known as "Trigger," a gun-slinging acquaintance of Billy the Kid and Jesse James. The spry, loquacious centenarian recounted tales that jibed with historical documents. One secret of his longevity: "I never drink green [plain] milk...