Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quite suddenly she threaded the cross onto achain and pulled it over her head. She felt calmeras she drifted towards sleep. As her grey eyesclosed she shot ahead in time and thought: shefirst saw her grandmother's drawn face in acoffin, not looking peaceful but rather devoid ofconcern. Then the thump of the earth against thecoffin as the grave was filled; finally the crossas it hung about her neck thumping against herchest with every step. The joy of a treasuredmemory filled her; she slept...
...Harvard men's rugby club held onto its undefeated Metro League mark with 33-0 blanking of Boston College Saturday in front of 100 spectators at Soldiers Field...
...time is the late 1940s, the place Montgomery. James Earl Jones, portraying civil rights pioneer Vernon Johns, walks into an all-white diner, plops himself onto a stool and orders lunch. When the proprietor scornfully pours a Coke all over the counter, Jones erupts. "There's something inside of me," he growls, grabbing the man by the lapels, "that doesn't like to be pushed around...
...Cubism or their opposition to it. Abstract art comes out of the virtual disappearance of the recognizable nude or still life from Braque's and Picasso's work in the autumn of 1911. Pop art is born in the letters, headlines and brand names they stenciled and glued onto their surfaces. Constructivist sculpture descends from Braque's paper constructions and Picasso's tin guitar. Abstract Expressionism gets its originality from its struggle to "escape the Cubist grid" -- which was never a grid anyway. Cubism, from this simplified and patristic standpoint, becomes the tree in the primal garden of modernism...
What lifts the September showdowns in the other three divisions onto an almost magical plane is the identities of the contending teams themselves. No celluloid Field of Dreams can compete with the real-life resurrections that are a recurrent theme of this year's pennant sagas. In particular, four teams vying for the playoffs boast a distinct personality. Whoever prevails can be said to vindicate not only a theory of how the game should be played but, perhaps, for those who hail baseball as a religion, a philosophy of life as well...