Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Paul was tiring. That Thursday evening, after he had retired in the house of the Archbishop of Cracow, the Pope was called out onto the balcony by a crowd of serenaders. When he appeared in his shirtsleeves, the crowd shouted the usual, "May you live 100 years." Asked the Pope: "Do you really want your Pope to live 100 years?" Shout ed the crowd: "Yes!" Replied the Pope with a smile: "Then let me get some sleep...
...making faces before an imaginary mirror. Too many years before the camera, perhaps, where her superbly expressive face, particularly her eyes, have been her fortune. A deeper defect is that she projects no wifely warmth or maternal affections. She treats Papa (George Hearn) like a stagehand who has wandered onto the set, and acts like a coolly efficient career woman with five pressing memos in front of her instead of five adoring children...
...price of its own competing grade by a comparable amount. The increase, Libya's second in a month, was promptly followed by a rise by Iraq as well. Even Saudi Arabia, which is generally regarded as a pricing moderate in the cartel, tacked a $1.40-per-bbl. increase onto its top-of-the-line "berri" light crude. Late in the week, Iran started the whole destructive process all over again by jumping up its prices another...
...irritation of party leaders like House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who regards him as something of a rebel, Jones last January maneuvered himself onto the powerful Budget Committee. He has since recommended cuts in spending for the Urban Development Bank, the Department of Energy's mismanaged Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Labor Department's scandal-plagued CETA employment program...
When Baker began to write the "Observer," he says, he had no notion that failure was a possibility, only a determination not to let his columns fall into an easily identifiable category. "You get onto a columnist, you know. There's foxy grandpa, there's the font of wisdom, there's Mr. Inside Information, and I was trying to mix it up, like a junk-ball pitcher in baseball keeping them off balance." He laughs. "You get older and lose your fastball and there's more junk. It was easy to be angry, but I felt you couldn...