Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unsuspecting Lucy ventures out of the Pensione for the first time to meet the "real Italians," foreshadowing the way Adela Quested in A Passage to India will go in search of the "real Indians." Innocently perusing the wares of a postcard vendor in the main square, Lucy stumbles onto a street fight--an Edwardian equivalent of a gang war. Fainting away at the sight of a youth expiring at her feet, she is carried off by the already enamored George, no doubt eager to demonstrate his frustrated manhood for the sake of his lady in distress. When Lucy awakens, George...
...would like, we would like very much to be able to say when we are on the other side of this liberation game, in which people have given their lives, people have been incarcerated, young children four years old have been killed, we want, when we get onto that other side, to say, `You know something? Harvard University was with us. Harvard University helped."' (Bishop Tutu, January...
...Crimson icemen attempted to hold onto a shrinking lead, there were a lot of churning stomachs in the Harvard stands, as well...
...afford to lose: from $30 to $2,000. (At least those are the figures they'll admit to.) Many of them say they are going to Vegas mainly to get warm. This is no doubt the reason why Mickey Koehler lugs $40 worth of quarters and $20 in dimes onto the plane--for the exercise. Still, the notion that just one of those dimes in the right slot machine could mean a bright red vintage MG isn't entirely incidental...
...bespectacled, goat-voiced man in his 30s who has spent the last nine years of his life in Namibia cheerfully studying gibbon dung. As is evident in his shaking hands and uncertain style, only the twin prospects of starvation and separation from his beloved droppings has forced him onto the stage...