Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bryant says the most elaborate robbery attempt occurred in 1971, when an intrepid would-be thief stayed in the building after closing hours and climbed out onto the roof of the Widener rooms housing one of the few Gutenberg Bibles in the world. The man broke through two skylight windows, lowered himself into the chamber and removed the extremely heavy volumes from their case. Bible in hand, he began to climb the knotted rope, but midway up, he fell to the concrete floor. The robber's moans brought one of the night janitors running. "He was terribly injured...
Bloom's failure must be diagnosed as one of the heart, not the head. His agile mind latches onto a bit of esoterica and clearly delights in its possibilities, but cannot communicate any enthusiasm. It is indeed a shame that Bloom cannot join the visionary company of his betters in myth-making--but too much criticism has apparently blinded his imagination...
After Himelman gorillaed an eight iron 30 yards over the green, he pitched his second shot back over the carpet and into a ravine. Rather than suffer a penalty shot, however, Himelman entered the hazard barefoot and, in Nicklausian fashion, hammered the spheroid safely onto the putting surface. But the Leverett House senior wasted his watery acrobatics by three-putting the sloping green for a triple bogey...
...Russian art by Stalin. On the other hand, the work of Iwan Puni and Vladimir Tallin was virtually dialectical materialism transferred into art-"real materials," as Tatlin put it, possibly drawing on his own experience as a marine carpenter, "in real space." When Puni stuck a ham mer onto one of his reliefs, and a saw onto another, he did so to praise the world of work and its appropriate tools, to give sculpture a new standing as the product of labor rather than the emblem of luxury or abstract power. As a result, his work- or what survives...
...dramatically drew to even par with an eagle on the next hole a la Gene Sarazen in the 1935 Masters. After crunching his drive on the downwind par five, he ripped a five iron onto the green and proceeded to kill a rattler when he snaked home a 40-ft. putt...