Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brenssons ran for the stairwell, only to be met by other panicky guests and a thick wall of smoke. "We rushed back up," Brensson said. The family climbed onto the 20th-floor balcony that encircles the hotel. There three men helped lift them and others onto the top of the building. Throughout the late afternoon, six helicopters hovered in the air, plucking survivors from the roof...
...their real names. After angry debate, they undertake to improvise scenes that will define their 1920s Sicilian characters, only to have the speaker break in and say they have talked enough. All the while, an impish man uses a video camera to record the proceedings and simultaneously project them onto a screen at center stage. The cameraman narrates a "documentary" of random black-and-white footage of Sicily, reaching a comic apogee by intoning about Gestalt psychology as the film shows pigs being slaughtered...
...long-awaited offensive. Iran, boasted Rafsanjani, was still "counting down for the decisive final blow." On the other hand, some Western analysts contended that the wall of defenses around Basra, Iraq's second largest city, had prevented the Iranians from achieving even the limited objective of holding onto the four islands...
...time to die, I'll go." In the meantime, she exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield. Her sense of religion accounts too for Aquino's uncanny patience, her willingness, while awaiting what she regards as the appointed moment, to hold onto a burning match until it singes her fingers...
...wine spiked with antifreeze? The Austrian Ministry of Agriculture has wrestled with that question for more than a year since it seized several warehouses of white wine that vintners and dealers had illegally sweetened with diethylene glycol, an antifreeze component. Pouring the stuff into a river or out onto the ground would only poison the water table and outrage Austria's watchful environmentalists...