Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stumbled onto a lot of shiftless people by the end of the summer; you could say I was more or less one of them: never pausing in a particular place for longer than a day or two, breaking away from friends when I'd barely found them out, too often moving on reluctantly. It was pretty awesome how much company I had: all of us feeling trapped in perpetual transit, even though some of us knew we were slated to come to a standstill, eventually, in this house or on that date...
...settled down ontop of a sack of potatoes offered me by a peasant in the corridor of the next train out of Yugoslavia. I hadn't known you could bring sheep onto a passenger train, but maybe this one didn't count--it had, after all, been reduced to a skinless carcass and it swayed neatly and gently on a hook in the doorway. After our tickets had been punched, I decided to stroll on up to the first class just in case I could weasel a genuine seat...
When the news about the Croatian nationalist hijackers broke, and I had long put Europe out of mind, the pages of the Minneapolis Tribune opened onto the sneering image of one of my four traveling Yugoslavs. I dredged the forgotten picture from the bottom of my pack and the pair seemed to mirror each other right down to the cut of their clothes. The following day the outlaws' identities were released--Petar Matovic was a resident of New York. But I can't help musing that the sketch of the man with the mustache that emerged in my first class...
...trustees credit Horner for many vital diplomatic missions onto Harvard turf--it was she who asked for the formation of the Joint Policy Committee. Composed of members at the highest level of the Radcliffe and Harvard administration, the committee is trying to find a workable solution for the problem of Radcliffe's relationship to the University, and to articulate exactly what parts of the two institutions have been merged already...
...bone of contention among people who defend holding onto the journalism option is that the committee decided to offer again this year an option called "Fiction"--one which many feel has nothing to do with developing expository writing skills. "We had a fight at a faculty meeting about teaching this creative writing course--one which I don't think is valid," Robbins said. Byker responded with three reasons why he thought "of the two anomalies" in the expository writing curriculum, the fiction course is a more suitable offering: it had a longer history, more demand, and a full-time teacher...