Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aroused liberals who saw beneath the surface, however, the words meant something else altogether. The President, these critics complained, was wrapping himself in the Constitution while trying, in the words of Julius Chambers, director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, "to impose his own narrow ideological views onto the Supreme Court...
...author, a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for military hardware, blipped onto the national radar screen with his 1984 novel, The Hunt for Red October, a tale of a defecting Soviet nuclear submarine and its conflicted crew. Published by the Naval Institute Press, known primarily for academic and technical journals, the book was praised by Ronald Reagan as "the perfect yarn," became the sleeper of the year and stayed on the best-seller lists for seven months. With his new novel, Clancy has climbed out of the water. This time his subject is nothing less than World...
...there will be some spectacular things," said Clara Wainwright, coordinator of the floating birthday party, which is free and open to the public. Wainwright, the Cambridge artist who founded the Boston New Year's Eve celebration First Night, said that the floating extravaganza will also feature laser pictures projected onto a 50-foot high water screen...
...couple but survived, told the court that police threw Jean-Jacques into the trunk of their automobile for the drive to headquarters, where Desyr took part in the interrogation. In a darkened cell, Alix Ambroise said, he later heard what sounded like a "sack of coconuts" being dumped onto the floor. It was the broken body of his cousin, near death as a result of police beatings. Emmanuel Ambroise called Desyr and other Duvalier followers "sadistic animals who were satisfying their instincts in executing Duvalier's orders." After less than an hour's deliberation by the jury, the judge sentenced...
...from New York, a city not noted for its gentle traffic manners, tells of the time he lost a muffler on Storrow Drive to a Bostonian aggressively merging onto that thoroughfare. The Bostonian, despite the fact that he shed his own bumper in the clash, never glanced to either side and sped on when the New Yorker pulled over to exchange insurance information...