Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shagged out after my productive afternoon, I plopped onto the couch and proceeded to fall asleep while watching Bugs Bunny cartoons. After all, I had a paper to write, and I didn't want to be tired later...
Finally, I burst out of the hodge-podge of bricked up warehouses and auto-body shops onto a street that promised homes. Eager to escape death in the shadow of a "Lube Job $29.99" sign, I dived down the road. A quick left and I was deep in a sea of California ranch houses...
Harvard jumped onto the board early, as Ed Krayer directed home a Randy Taylor point shot on a four-on-four halfway through the first period...
Everyone knows the feeling, but not everyone listens to the music. Blues are too nasty and too raggedy to make it onto the pop charts unpasteurized. B.B. King and Muddy Waters have the names, but Eric Clapton's elegant revisionism makes the hits. For someone who plays and sings the blues as righteously as Robert Cray, it might be expected that he would become just another dimly remembered performer, hunkered down, playing the shellac off old 78s by forgotten Mississippi bands. That is not the way of it, though. In this, and in much else, Robert Cray has a different...
Before the signing, Mitra held a press conference with the N.D.F.'s chief negotiator, Satur Ocampo. Both men sounded guardedly hopeful. "We're holding onto our guns," said Ocampo. "It will be a cease-fire in place." Still, he pledged that the rebels, who control 18% of the country's 42,000 villages, would honor the truce. Said Mitra, for his part: "Both sides won the war." He added that the negotiations had been "eased through friendship and goodwill," noting that he and the N.D.F. negotiators had been journalistic colleagues long before President Ferdinand Marcos declared war on the insurgents...