Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of these people have become homeless in the past two decades as a result of being cut off from family support networks. The deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill also poured thousands of disturbed people onto the streets...
Cleary was thinking about sending for one of his freshmen goalies to come to West Point, N.Y., Saturday night for the Crimson's game against Army. But, said Cleary, "I didn't know how I'd get him up here." So the Crimson again sent McEvoy onto the ice without anyone to back him up. "I was praying nothing would happen to him," Cleary said...
...Walking onto the bridge, he looked closely at the joints where the thick timbers of the truss supporting the bridge meet. He brought up a handful of powdery dirt and let it fall from his palm, slowly. "The neglect of this bridge is shameful," he said. "Dirt holds moisture, and moisture is what rots wood. That's the whole reason these bridges are covered -- to keep the wood dry. With the right care, covered bridges can last hundreds of years, longer than steel and concrete...
...being turned out by more manufacturers in more locations than at any time in decades. In myriad shapes, sizes and colors, price tagged for all pocketbooks, in a glittering, growing, chromium-plated cavalcade seemingly without end, they continue to cruise into U.S. showrooms and, with slightly less frequency, back onto the streets of America. Under the impact of that four-wheeled flood, the $230 billion-a-year U.S. auto marketplace is being pushed, pulled and pummeled into new forms and shapes as one of the most diverse, sophisticated and, above all, brutally competitive selling arenas in the world...
Half an hour late, Emo flapped and blinked onto the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' stage, awkward and gangly, wearing too-big checked pants, belt cinched somewhere around where his pectorals should be. Enthusiastic whines of "Eeeemoooo, "Eeeemoooo" rose from the audience...