Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harmful to their infants and may even be lethal. Large sums of money have been spent on promotion to the public and to physicians. Many different tactics have been utilized, including the wide use of mass media, the issuing of free samples to new mothers to get them hooked onto formula feeding, the employment of nurses (so called "milk nurses") to persuade mothers to bottle feed, and what must be regarded as "pay offs" to influential physicians...
...with a tough flat-sided skin that is ideal for both picking by machine and packing for shipment without bruising; it has become the standard tomato for canning. Now agrono mists are close to developing a tomato resistant to the salt that settles in irrigated fields or is blown onto cropland by sea breezes. One researcher quips: "I don't think we'll ever be satisfied until we've got a tomato that can be grown on the moon and whistles Yankee Doodle Dandy. "In general, the greatest problems concerning agricultural technology seem to be whether farmers can keep...
...just started weaving back and forth with about a quarter-mile left and I tried to finish, tried to hold onto my position, but my legs just stopped," he said. "These legs of mine are just not made for cross country," McNulty, a one-mile specialist in track, added...
...American--but is it, in fact, when the vast majority of those who get to college not only have all their tuition fees paid by the government, but a considerable proportion of their living expenses as well? The introduction of government aid since 1945 has grafted a meritocracy onto a system of tradition designed to make "gentlemen." The student lounging in the Junior Common Room of one of the Oxford colleges (often medieval in origin), taking afternoon tea (provided by the college butler) and resplendent in T-shirt and jeans, may be the son of a lord, a nouveau riche...
...most of the insurgents in Malaysia are ethnic Chinese, there is little evidence that they are acting under Peking's orders.) The Tokyo-Peking friendship treaty, signed last August to the dismay of Moscow, has been interpreted by Pravda as a diabolical device by China "to force Japan onto the path of its preparations for a third world war." Says the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya: "China is striving to subordinate the African states to its dictates," in hopes of using thinly populated areas of the continent to resettle its excess population...