Search Details

Word: onto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...late afternoon of May 1, a group of about 75 people chanted as they marched along Memorial Drive, up Plympton St., on to Massachusetts Ave. Spreading out along the perimeter of the Yard, the activists clamoured about the iron gates, attempting to gain entry onto Harvard's property...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Laboring Against Mass Hall | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...party from Oregon Episcopal was not to be that lucky. Just before the search was called off Thursday, an Air Force sergeant happened onto a backpack at the 8,300-ft. level. There searchers located the remaining climbers, by then buried three days under deep snow. They swiftly airlifted all eight to Portland hospitals. Doctors revived two students. The six others were dead. The tragedy was Mount Hood's worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oregon Killer | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...otherworldly animals pop up in the most amazing places, so it was no surprise that Dr. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodor Geisel, should find his most famous fictional feline in front of the San Diego Museum of Art, about to be hoisted onto the roof. The 22-ft.-tall replica of the Cat in the Hat went on display last week to announce the opening of "Dr. Seuss from Then to Now," a retrospective of his nearly 60-year career that will travel over the next two years to Pittsburgh, New York City, Baltimore and New Orleans. Geisel, 82, whose latest best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 26, 1986 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Thousands of laborers set about sealing off the reactor and cleaning up nearby areas last week. Helicopters continued to drop tons of sand, lead and boron onto the reactor each day to keep radiation from reaching the air. On the ground, crews worked to seal off the 570 degrees mass from the soil and water below. The news agency TASS reported that at one crucial point, three men in protective garments dove into a pool that had collected beneath the reactor and opened valves to let the water out. That ended the danger that the reactor could fall into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Gorbachev Goes on the Offensive | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...bottles of gasoline wired to a battery and manual trigger. When her hand apparently slipped on the trigger, she set off the crude bomb. The blast killed her instantly. It seared young faces with flash burns and ignited clothes. Reeling teachers shoved children through the blown-out windows onto the grass outside, where they lay screaming and shivering with shock as their parents fought through police lines to reach them. Some 70 people were later hospitalized; at least one child had burns over 50% of his body. Young, rushing back from the toilet, shot School Bandleader Jon Miller, wounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wyoming Horror: A fiery schoolhouse bomb | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Previous | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | Next