Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more could be stacked up for storage. A stacking armchair designed in 1929, its rear legs, back rail and arms a single piece of bent wood, is swanker, a kind of streamlined Thonet. Yet despite the curvature, it is still a plain old chair, a clunky seat stuck onto four legs-a goat just beginning, it appears, to turn into a gazelle...
Harvard's ground attack centered on Vignali, who fired on all cylinders to the tune of 171 yards. But the key play of the game came with 2:40 remaining, when Harvard had a third and eight on its 22. White scrambled for 19 yards and the Crimson held onto the ball until only II ticks were left on the clock. when it was too late for the Tigers toscore again...
...late in a June evening last year when a high school student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dialed a seven-digit number and logged onto the GTE Telenet Communications Network. The teenager began roaming through the New York area of the national system that ties more than 1200 computers together into a setup open to about 150,000 paying customers. Accessing systems almost at random, the student gave the name set of standard answers to demands for password identification from the large computers on the network--hello, test, sysop--ht might type, as his screens filled with logos from systems thousands...
...Christiaan Barnard, the South African pioneer of heart transplants, made two attempts to use simian hearts: in a 26-year-old woman, who survived for only six hours, and in a 59-year-old man, who died four days after surgery. In each case, Barnard "piggybacked" the animal organ onto the patient's own heart to act as a supplementary pump. He decided to abandon the technique because of the poor results and the risks of becoming "emotionally attached" to donor chimpanzees, which, he says "are very much like humans." Barnard is nonetheless enthusiastic about the Baby Fae case...
...Just as a good skyscraper must be designed in the context of the entire city, this project must be designed in the context of the entire landscape, the climate, the history, the views from the ridge onto the ocean, the mountains and Los Angeles...