Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With flashbulbs flashing, fans and photographers surrounding her, singer and Dynasty star Diahann Carroll might have been stepping out of her black, stretch limousine onto the streets of Hollywood rather than Harvard Square yesterday afternoon...
While that ruling was being appealed, A.G.S. was proceeding on its own. Late in 1984 it applied to the EPA for a permit to test Frostban on a strawberry patch in Monterey County, Calif.; last November the agency granted A.G.S. permission to spray some 8 trillion altered bacteria onto the field. But unknown to the EPA, the financially struggling company had already conducted outdoor tests of Frostban...
...daughter, who graduated from Berkeley, is . . . well, currently on tour. As one of the four members of a sensational rock outfit called the Bangles. Who have a new Columbia album called Different Light. Who have an ace single, Manic Monday, written pseudonymously by Prince and closing like an Exocet onto the top of the charts. Who will not have to introduce themselves to anyone by the time summer rolls around...
...politicians went into town to assert the continued resurrection of the opposition movement. As the leaders took the podium at the local Y.M.C.A., 3,000 supporters squeezed into the tiny gymnasium. Perhaps 50,000 others gathered outside in the streets. Some sat on curbsides, some mounted rooftops, some climbed onto telephone booths or trees to hear the call for nonviolent resistance. "Let them back us, imprison us or put us under house arrest," declared Kim Young Sam. "This is the way Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. won victory." Throughout the four-hour rally, thousands of policemen looked on, unarmed...
...time he had a French-speaking person in tow. With his friend's help, William Murphy, 28, explained to Yves's father Jean-Guy, 51, that he had found a wallet belonging to the elder Lavigueur. The unemployed Murphy had anonymously returned the wallet to Jean-Guy but held onto a 72 cents lottery ticket inside --until he learned it was worth a winning U.S. $5.6 million. The grateful JeanGuy decided to divide the winnings among himself, four members of his family and Murphy. Murphy's share of the proceeds: $864,000, which in Canadian dollars made him a millionaire...