Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bars of each number; singing to a shouted obbligato of "You said it, Willie! Sing it!"; swigging a beer between phrases or cheerfully knocking back the shots of booze passed up to him from the audience; remaining unperturbed even when a burly fan in sheer exuberance hurls a table onto the bandstand-bottles, glasses...
...personnel must come through, and that means no ifs, ands or buts. Leading the list of returning bodies is Harvard's 67th captain, bearded senior Mark Meyer, a four-year runner who burst onto the scene in a big way last fall...
...Commodore" Perry. Legend has it that a student took the course (something of an easy rid) and wrote a very bogus paper on whales and whaling. Figuring that he would need to dress up his anemic effort a little, he pasted a whale, cut from a National Geographic, onto the front cover of the paper and handed...
With elephantine dignity, the helium-filled balloon finally landed in a wheatfield in the village of Miserey, 50 miles west of Paris. By then, hundreds of cars had roared onto the scene, and villagers were sprinting to welcome the trio of adventurers. As they arrived, the Americans popped the cork from a bottle of champagne and began toasting their feat and each other. Ben Abruzzo, 48, Max Anderson, 44, and Larry Newman, 31, all from Albuquerque, had just completed a historic first crossing of the Atlantic by balloon, making the 3,100-mile trip from Presque Isle, Me., to Miserey...
...hoards. Gold sales by the Treasury and the International Monetary Fund so far have been too small to affect the price much. The world's central banks and the IMF hold 40,000 tons of gold, about half the total ever mined. If a significant amount were thrown onto the market, the price would be knocked down hard, perhaps to $100 an ounce or so. As the dollar gained in value against gold, it might also rise against foreign currencies as well. But central banks are reluctant to part with the one reserve asset they hold that is increasing...