Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immune system causes allergic reactions. Researchers had determined that Immunoglobulin E (IgE), a blood fraction involved in fighting off invasions by foreign substances, is often present in abnormally large amounts in allergy victims. The Y-shaped molecules join with allergens such as pollens and then lock onto special sites on the surfaces of the connective tissue structures known as mast cells, causing them to release histamines, which in turn trigger allergy symptoms...
...roster of complaints ranges from the trivial to the relatively serious: hotels on the road are rarely good enough; instead of charter flights after night games, players often have to grouse their way onto morning flights on scheduled airlines; no stamps are supplied for answering fan mail; torn pants and two-year-old shirts are handed out in the clubhouse; and there is no free telephone in the clubhouse for local calls. "The problem is simple," says one player. "Charlie Finley is the cheapest son of a bitch in baseball...
...large women walks onto the empty concert stage. Before the audience has had a chance to quiet down, she begins to make strange animal-like noises. Shrieks and grants alternate with sung vowels and machine gun like repetitings of consents as her voice gyrates wildly like a deranged roller-coaster. Her mood and the accompanying facial contortions change every few seconds...
...done, passing out in the backseat of the Delac, on his sweetheart's lap. Not to walk back to Peg's picking my way through the blackness with a load tread and louder whistle so Peg would hear me loud and clear and not blast me when, stepping onto his porch, his door popped open a crack and he stood naked in the glow, his hands hidden as I told him we'd be on his property a while longer, if it suited him. Briggs and I hadn't come to Pegleg Mac's to cruise his rutted road...
This kind of wonderfulness rolls on and on, these granite slabs shifting and heaving and finally buckling under--for Father, who is broken on the rocks, though others have hopes that fight up and sprout through cracks. Characters dash off onto the ice floes of history--with the stirred-up sureness of manifest destiny or the desperation of an immigrant's flight, of a striker's decision to strike--and whether they come back or float away depends on their understanding of the terrain.J.P.Morgan understands it, or at least keeps himself so entombed in greatness that he can afford...