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Word: onto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were on our way home from Montreal after a weekend of bilingual debauchery when the muffler--possibly out of mechanical outrage at my amateur outrage at my amateur treatment of the clutch--slammed onto the pavement, leaving the car sounding somewhat like a Cuisinart trying to eat gravel: "Rrrr--KKKKK--ponkataponkata--WhaP...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: GONZO WEEKEND | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...Well, I don't think so officer...." Three seconds later, we were all spread-eagle against the patrol car, the german shepard slavering at us through a thin wall of glass. Paper bags, Coke cans, Doritos and other trash flew onto the highway as Officer Redneck searched our car, finally producing one, sole, empty can of beer...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: GONZO WEEKEND | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

Traffic officials detoured passing cars onto Memorial Drive by way of DeWolfe St. Walsh said. "Cars couldn't see it [the hole] until they were right up next to it," Goodman said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sinkhole Forms in Street, Nearly Swallows Rabbit | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...Fremantle and watched the city, once a thriving colonial port, regain its past vibrancy as it played host to thousands of spectators. After deciding in December that the four-hour plane trip from Melbourne was too time consuming, Dunn and his assistant, Di Webster packed their files and computers onto the Indian-Pacific train and opened a new office 1,700 miles away, in a Fremantle town house a few hundred yards from the marinas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 9, 1987 | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...seminar on the Constitution, "The Making of America" is more a churchy patriotic meeting than a scholarly dissertation. Sessions open with a presentation of military colors, followed by soloists belting out The Battle Hymn of the Republic and audiences singing God Bless America. When W. Cleon Skousen, 74, steps onto the podium, he preaches that the authors of the Constitution intended the U.S. to be governed as a Christian republic "under the law of God." As he explained to a rapt gathering of 800 in Anchorage two weeks ago, "The Founding Fathers wanted to separate church and state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In God We Trust | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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