Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light luncheon" with the Fuhrer, Helms was directed to a nearby castle, and made his way to the battlements. "Suddenly I heard from behind me a throaty voice say in German, 'That's a lovely view.' " Helms turned and was face to face with Hitler, who had stepped onto the balcony...
...Wyandotte detective sergeant Dan Galeski found problems in DeLisle's story. The father reportedly said he got out of a car window only after the wheels touched the bottom of the river. In fact, the current had flipped the auto onto its roof. Some witnesses said they saw DeLisle in the water while the taillight was still visible. Others reported that a day earlier, a car with one taillight had moved slowly along the dead-end street...
...asked 1,228 U.S. voters whether in the previous five years any member of their household had "used a handgun, even if it was not fired, for self-protection or for the protection of property." Roughly 4% (about 50 people) said they had done so. Projecting that percentage onto the number of U.S. households in the five years covered by the poll (1976-81), Kleck came up with the estimate that handguns had been used protectively 3,224,880 times, or 645,000 a year. Comparing that with surveys that included rifles and shotguns, he estimated that all types...
...course, was rewarded with a knighthood from a grateful Queen. Call that just vacation fun compared with what Clancy pulled off in The Cardinal of the Kremlin. Not only did he virtually save the job of a reform-minded Soviet leader but he also spirited a defecting KGB chief onto Air Force One to fly to the land of freedom, opportunity and new Tom Clancy novels...
...short a cross-country speaking tour in Chicago, grunting to his staff, "I just know it is the right thing to do," and hurried home to Washington to confront his first hostage crisis as President. He jumped off his helicopter Marine One onto the South Lawn of the White House. Walking in the fetid summer air toward the Oval Office, he kicked an acorn lying on the drive, a small sign of George Bush's frustration at finding himself caught in the terrorist web that humiliated his predecessors. That was about his only display of raw anger...