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Word: onto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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NUMBER ONE: This one came on a Crimson power play. Jack Hughes sliced through the UNH forwards at mid-ice and two Wildcat defensemen converged on Jack at the blue line. Jackie magnificently juked and deked, penetrated the offensive zone and slid the puck to brother George streaking onto the UNH net. A quick fake right drew goalie Greg Moffitt and George zinged his shot just inside the far post...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: George Hughes is Just the Utter Most | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

NUMBER FOUR: George popped home a rebound for his fourth. A David Burke pass sent a flying Jack Burke into the UNH end on a clean breakaway. The freshman from Winthrop, Mass. drilled a shot onto the crossbar, and out of nowhere, big George tucked the rebound into...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: George Hughes is Just the Utter Most | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

...indulge themselves. Tis the season when department-store cosmetics counters are jammed and the air redolent of thousands of mixed scents as women spray themselves with a bit of this and a touch of that. Men's eyes are often struck by the sight of a woman daubing lipstick onto her hand to get a better idea of the shade?and leaving five or six stripes of what looks like war paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: Kiss and Sell | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...prologue promised opera on a grand scale. An eerie rumble of double basses and tympani built in the pit. Then a beam of light stabbed down onto the blackened stage, illuminating the figure of the blind poet Milton (Arnold Moss). "Hail, holy light!" he intoned. The choir of black-robed, monklike figures, clustered on either side of the stage in two four-tiered towers, burst forth in a great invocation: "What in us is dark/ Illumine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heavenly Bore | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Every human ritual, after all, owns the ulterior intent of pressing people out of habituated everyday behavior. Just as a parade or fiesta is intended to tug people en masse onto the streets to see and celebrate who they are, so the rites of the winter holidays are aimed at prying people out of their diurnal' ruts into unaccustomed minglings, new communions, fresh gestures. The purpose of it all, undeclared and unsentimental, is to arouse a general reaffirmation of the commonality of life as the year's shortest day comes and goes. While emotionally fragile individuals may suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Get This Season off the Couch! | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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