Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there are the weird things that can happen only in the bushes, like games being stopped because of tornadoes or a brawl in the stands. One particular riot spilled over onto the field, and Wolff's team ended up losing half its gloves and bats...
Cantankerous friends of mine, bummed out by the "issues of the day," have invented their own. They've been to El Paso and know west Texas like the back of this month's Playmate, and they swear that they've seen the sand dune Neil Armstrong stepped out onto that historic day in July 1969. "Backdrops and mock-ups," they say. "No way anybody could ever get to the moon. It was all staged out there in Texas...
...fails. The very artists whom Adams would have expected to keep the icon hanging straight, are coping--by varnishing the Dynamo with super-realism. Warhol handles mass-production by redistributing the colors of soup cans. Rauschenberg sublimates industrial waste by pasting it together, taking it up off the floor onto the walls. Steve Gildea, a photo-realist painter, places a grid on photographs, another grid on the surfaces to be painted, and then copies square by square...
Holding himself stiffly in his sashed and braided blue uniform, Generalissimo Francisco Franco stepped out onto the balcony of the Royal Palace overlooking Madrid's Plaza de Oriente. Instantly, the human sea of 150,000 faithful down below him thrust right arms forward in salute. Then the crowd launched into Face to the Sun, the anthem of the right-wing Falangist shopkeepers and tradesmen who sided with Franco when he began his bloody struggle for power 39 years ago and have been unswerving in their support of him ever since. Franco spoke only three minutes in his thin, barely...
Wise's opponent was Gary Nolan, and after three innings, there were nothing but zeroes on the scoreboard. With Joe Morgan batting in the top of the fourth, the game had to be stopped because some unruly fans were descending from the aisles onto the Reds' dugout. They apparently misunderstood the meaning of standing room only tickets...