Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After that, the name is entered onto the general election rolls, and the registrant is given a choice of political parties to join," he continued...
...priority groups as the Spinners, the Four Tops and the Pips received the leavings. "We wanted to do a gospel album long before Aretha," says Gladys, "and Berry saved the soft songs for Diana Ross." But in 1967 a catchy soul rocker, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, sailed onto the charts for the Pips. Two other singles had scored for them by the time their Motown contract expired in 1973, and they quickly made a deal with Buddah Records...
...after a story broke in the press alleging that the CIA had planted a spy in the White House, Colonel Fletcher Prouty telephoned CBS Newsman Daniel Schorr with the startling news that former Nixon Aide Alexander Butterfield was the man. Schorr rushed the retired Air Force officer onto the network's Morning News for his disclosure, which generated sensational headlines. But last week, when Butterfield denied Prouty's charges and hinted he might sue him for libel, the colonel, in an interview with his hometown paper in Springfield, Mass., expressed second thoughts. Then Prouty confused matters further with...
...conservatives, the spectacle of liberals scrambling onto the high, flinty ground of frugality is more than just amusing. "They are catching up with the country," says Conservative Columnist George Will, who did his bit to elevate the public consciousness of the Coolidge era by noting that under Cal, ice cream production in the United States went...
January throws herself onto Colt's impotent lap, precipitating a whole series of romantic climaxes and their dramatic antitheses. There are other funny goings-on: a putative sapphic interlude between Alexis Smith and Melina Mercouri, which sends off as many sparks as a doused campfire; an astronaut's confession that his wife and he "didn't really get along before I flew to the moon"; Brenda Vaccaro's struggle as a magazine editor who cannot write, bragging that "we have a whole staff of underpaid shmucks to take care of that...