Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson can latch onto a quarterback and a defensive line, it should be in contention for a second straight title...
...first few weeks of July you can see boys and girls in Ulster rummaging through old junk in every abandoned house, picking up scraps of wood and throwing them onto piles, some as high as the narrow two-story rowhouses. When my train pulled into Belfast on the afternoon of the eleventh, some of the older kids were joining in and throwing old furniture onto the piles. Shops were closing up early and the people on the streets seemed to be in a hurry to get home: the fortnight holiday had begun. That night the red-yellow flames of bonfires...
...there. More staggering than the variety, though, is the amount of the kinds of things you'd normally find at a supermarket. Instead of a refrigerator case full of beer there are aisles of beer and islands of beer at junctions of aisles, huge mounds of cans spilling out onto the floor. If you wanted to buy orange juice you would go to a 25-yard-long shelf with gallons and quarts and pints of the stuff, and all different brands...
...dazed and wounded poured out onto the street facing Hyde Park. "I saw a woman with both legs blown off below the knee," said a waiter as he sat dumbfounded on the curb. "There was blood and black smoke everywhere." The explosion was heard all over Mayfair, the heart of fashionable London, and ambulances sped to the hotel. "One minute everyone was walking about normally," said Sally Mordant, a passerby. "The next it was complete chaos...
...That was the most frightening moment of my life," said British Rock Star Elton John, after fighting his way through a crowd of glitter groupies and onto the tennis courts at Forest Hills, N.Y. Armed with a sparkling forehand and pink, star-shaped sunglasses, Elton had joined Ted and Ethel Kennedy, plus some 40 celebrity racket wielders for the fourth annual Robert F. Kennedy charity tournament. While Jackie Onassis and Daughter Caroline watched, along with 13,000 other spectators, Tennis Pro Tony Roche collected first prize (a $12,000 BMW car) in the doubles competition with help from his partner...