Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of trekking across the river on the gamble of finding enough people for a game, Quad residents just step outside their doors onto the best field on the Cambridge side of the Charles. It's one-fifth of a mile around, absolutely level, and big enough to sustain three or four different ball games at once. Despite its lower % of males, the Quad placed fifth out of the eleven houses in the Strauss Cup race. With house-owned volleyball sets, 3 weight-room, four clay tennis courts soon to be enclosed in a dome, backboards, a basketball court across...
...seam with pickaxes; they work continuous mining machines that cost $200,000 apiece and look like a cross between a chain saw and a lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons of coal a minute; then their clawlike arms sweep the coal onto conveyor belts. The most efficient underground mines have "longwall" machines that continuously shear the coal vein, much as a delicatessen slicer cuts salami...
Severe in stiffened white net and a feathered crown, Prima Ballerina Tamara Karpova delicately wafts across the stage. Rising onto her toes, she pirouettes daintily. The audience starts to giggle. If her style is classic, Karpova's form decidedly is not. No long-limbed Balanchine girl she. At 5 ft. 6½ in., 160 lbs., Karpova's silhouette more closely resembles a sack of potatoes than a royal bird. The house shakes with laughter as her playmates, a brawny quartet of swans who differ vastly in shape and size, galumph through the imaginary forest. Disdainfully, the Black Rhinestone...
...occasion was a master class with two undergraduate cellists, Rostropovich's only public appearance at Harvard during a five-day stay at the University. From the moment he walked onto the Sanders stage, whether talking or gesticulating or demonstrating, Rostropovich won the rapt attention of his audience. Wildly waving his arms to illustrate musical points and likening performers' bad habits to sausages, pollution and clumsy love, Rostropovich repeatedly exhibited what a superlative musician can offer a student and an audience, even without his instrument...
Other methods of concealing payoffs can go undetected for a long time. A foreign subsidiary of Burroughs Corp., the Detroit-based computer company, tacked payoffs onto sales prices and distributed some $2 million through the use of fictitious invoices. Burroughs headquarters found out about the payoffs after a Price Waterhouse audit that company chiefs ordered last year. The company will not say what officials or countries were involved. In their annual report, Burroughs officials allude to the payoffs and say that the company is taking "vigorous steps to reinforce its longstanding policy against such actions...