Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decked out with sunburns and smiles, the crowds began to leave Quinsigamond. Rowers piled onto team buses and spectators jumped into cars or simply walked out of the park. Most were excited about the races...
...Wallace made his unusual entrance because he had no other way of getting on stage. A rugby accident in high school left him paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a wheelchair to get around. Without a special elevator, Wallace needed his friends to hoist him onto the stage. At his request, the University began plans to install a lift, but Wallace was "fed up" waiting for it and quit the group before it was built...
Before each concert last semester, members of the Harvard Glee Club carried Guy Wallace '88, one of its members, onto the stage at Paine Hall. The routine was not unlike the antics of some of the a capella groups on campus which devise bizarre ways of opening their performances...
...reactor continued to burn, military helicopters reportedly flew over the site and dropped wet sand, lead and boron onto the burning reactor. Available evidence at week's end suggested that the fire was dying...
...paramilitary forces stood by to reclaim the holy place from the Sikh extremists who had seized control three months before. Pilgrims were advised to leave. Soon afterward, 300 commandos swept into the outer offices of the complex, arresting student leaders. Then, with another 700 troops, they fanned out onto the marble pathway surrounding the main temple shrine, where the militants were holed up. The search for the extremists, punctuated by occasional gunfire, ended eight hours later as the last of the rebels surrendered...