Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Paxton may have the putting touch of a Swiss watchmaker, he can also powder the ball with the best of them. In the warmer climes of Paducah he regularly drives 280-290 yards. In a practice round before the NCAA Qualifying Tournament, he hit a humongous seven-iron onto a 228-yard par-three ninth hole...
...with the poet: Thomas Hood. "Thomas Hood! Yes..." says Petric. "It was also made by D.W. Griffith into a tenminute film," he says, and begins to rummage through his papers. After several minutes, he triumphantly tosses a reference in one of his own articles to the 1908 film onto the desk. "'Song of the Shirt,'" he repeats, "an example of the relationship between literature and cinema in the earliest stage of film history!" Such obsessive thoroughness is said to be characteristic of all Petric's work and research...
...planned six months in advance, it happened to come at a delicate moment in U.S.-Israeli relations: the U.S. Congress was embroiled in controversy over a complex, three-way airplane sale to the Middle East. Rarely in U.S. history had a foreign chief of government so unabashedly ventured out onto the hustings, as it were, to drum up support for his policies...
Platform ahead. Step up onto platform...
...cops. Usually this equipment is left on the job site when work crews head home. Watchmen are too expensive for many contractors, and the ones that are posted are easily overpowered by thieves. Says Hugh Goulding, vice president of Howell Tractor and Equipment Co., "The thieves simply winch it onto a lowboy trailer and drive it away...