Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saundra M. Graham, who is now a state representative, led about 20 Cambridge residents and seniors onto the Commencement stage during a speech by University Marshal William Anderson. The community activist pulled the microphone out of Anderson's hand and told the audience why Harvard should set aside its property near Peabody Terrace for low-income housing...
...even broke onto the national scene, ranking 21st nationally in scoring and second in free throw percentage...
...named All-League three times and second team All-State once, so when she burst onto the college scene at the Business School Field, hometown fans have some notion of what was in store...
Clint Eastwood strode down the steps of the Palais des Festivals, and the townsfolk swooned as if a god had descended to earth. Another Hollywood deity ambled onto the Palais stage, heard himself introduced as "Mon General James Stewart" and watched a couple of thousand people in evening clothes stand up to cheer and salute. Earlier, gallant as always, Stewart had served as foil for June Allyson's sparkle at a press conference celebrating the screening of their 1954 film The Glenn Miller Story. Cher, the star of Mask, impressed everyone by winning a prize for best actress and, earlier...
...interest rates energized Wall Street for a while. On Monday, which was the first business day after the discount rate cut, the Dow Jones industrial average surged 19.54 points to finish at a record 1304.88, its first close above the 1300 barrier. The bulls tacked additional 4.82 points onto the Dow average on Tuesday, lifting it to a new peak of 1309.7. At that point the market began suffering from one of its recurrent afflictions: acrophobia. Investors started cashing in some of their profits, sending the Dow back down. The industrial average finished the week...