Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other countries, agreed to negotiate for the release of the hostages. The Iranians acted reluctantly, perhaps because of their anger over extensive French arms sales to Iraq. By Thursday morning, all 14 of the women and children on board were released. That afternoon the remaining hostages were herded onto the runway. The hijackers blew up the plane's cockpit, then surrendered. French Chargé d'Affaires Jean Perrin called the explosion "a little matter of honor...
Shortly before 9 p.m., shouts and screams rang out from the crowd. A red 1979 Buick Regal sedan swerved out of the street and onto the sidewalk. Picking up speed, the auto barreled almost a full block at more than 35 m.p.h. The mad driver scattered people "like tenpins," said Ken Jacobs, an eyewitness. "He just mowed them down." The driver stopped only when he slammed into a bus shelter, crushing his car's front end and sending shattered glass into the street...
...Army Corps of Engineers. Twenty years ago, the corps spent $29 million on the construction of a 52-mile channel along the 98-mile Kissimmee, punctuated by locks every ten miles or so. The purpose: to control the seasonal flooding that spilled over the river's banks onto 60,000 surrounding acres, destroying property and jeopardizing tourism. Now, in the first rejection of a corps' project ever, the South Florida Water Management District could spend up to $65 million to undo the Army handiwork and return the channel more or less to its original course...
...since Billie Jean to reach the top slots simultaneously on the pop, black and dance charts. Purple Rain had already sold nearly 2.5 million copies before the movie was released last Friday. This is serious business. So is the movie, a short-circuited psychodrama that grafts snazzy performance footage onto the fictive fever chart of an angst-ridden musician called The Kid and played by Prince himself. The movie has been pulling down real tub-thumper reviews, the sort of hot-seat hype that gives some indication of the way Prince can generate fever and keep the temperature high...
After the last semifinal race Saturday Doug Domokos, the Wheelie King, came show boating onto the track and bet track builder John Savitski $500 he could ride around it on one wheel. He did it but it was an awful lot like watching Meadow-lark Lemmon run around with a waterbucket full of confetti...