Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freezing wind was whipping across Jamaica Bay when the bandits struck at 3:05 a.m. They drove a stolen 1978 black Ford van along North Boundary Road and turned onto a roadway at the north end of the Lufthansa cargo area. The thieves first stopped and clipped a chain securing the gate, and then proceeded about 400 ft. to a ramp. There an airline employee, Kerry Whalen, challenged them. The gang pistol-whipped him, threw him to the floor of the van and drove onto the loading bay area...
...they drifted out onto the White House grounds, now bejeweled with Christmas lights, the leaders were in a gloomy mood. "Unless black people are given relief," said National Urban League Director Vernon Jordan Jr., "it will be impossible for them to contain their despair or for them to sublimate their anger through the political process. It is a distressful situation that we cannot contain...
...bronze in front of Dallas' new city hall, designed by Pei. "Until this arrived," Pei said, "I felt something was missing." A few spectators, however, thought something was still amiss. "Is this a junkyard?" asked one. Moore was undaunted. "People shouldn't immediately expect to cotton onto something someone else has been thinking about much, much longer," he says. "I mean, they don't understand Einstein...
...concocted by 11 men, seven of whom slipped into the Brink's warehouse one evening wearing pea-coats and Halloween masks and made off with the loot. At the time, the Brink's gang wasn't looked on as a bunch of affable fellows who just happened to stumble onto the crime of the century. In fact, a lot of people were convinced that the gang had wide underworld connections. Even six years after the robbery, when the case finally came to trial, the judge had difficulty empanelling jurors, most of whom were convinced they would be marked for life...
Fitzgibbons began to lubricate his swing by the second nine, which he started off with four straight pars. Then, on the par-five, 515-yd. 17th, he made a scrambling bogey after driving into the trees. He stung a three-iron under some overhanging branches, smashed a three-wood onto the apron, and two-putted from 60 feet. Dales finished with a tidy par on 18 to give the team a one-over 36 for the back nine after a 41 for the front side...