Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, Anne Tyler was interviewing Eudora Welty, and they got on the subject of driving. Welty, who was getting up in age, allowed that she continued to drive but that she found propelling herself off the approach ramp onto superhighways particularly difficult, like insinuating yourself into a game of hot pepper, the furiously fast jump-rope play that still goes on in schoolyards everywhere. The sharpness of the image suggested a writer's mind at work, which in fact was the case...
...other members of the family stopped to say prayers at the graves of John and Robert Kennedy. Then, on a beautiful, sun-drenched afternoon, with the cars parked bumper to bumper along Chain Bridge Road, family and friends gathered. Babies squealed. Dogs tore around among the guests, bounding onto the furniture. Two Roman Catholic priests circulated among the people. Ethel bore up stoically. She spent much of her time with David's coffin in one room of the house. David's brothers were close to tears, but perhaps they remembered their grandfather's hard rule: "Kennedys...
...vote for Mondale or Hart, Jackson tells voters, means "getting off a Republican elephant and onto a Democratic donkey going in the same direction, just a little slower. We need a new direction. It is better to lose an election going in the right direction than win going in the wrong direction." Some blacks carry that logic to its literal conclusion. Asked if she feared that a vote for Jackson would actually help Reagan, Chicago Secretary Selestine Humphrey answered, "I don't want to see Reagan back, but if that's the price black people have...
...point of origin, and the Limousines gathered in Fort Worth while journalists and campaign workers waited for them at the Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas. Jackson aides rounded up two church buses to get the tour under way-90 minutes late. But one bus broke down and limped onto a goat farm near the town of Grand Prairie; reporters and camera crews had to hire a fleet of taxis to chase after the candidate. All of which seemed apt for a major campaign that has generated more excitement with less money and organization than any other in memory...
...little more than a thing on the wall with a funny name. It is their thesis or it is the reading period of the spring of their freshman year. I figured out about three years ago that you can exit the Widener stacks from B-level, right out onto Mass. Ave. But I'm not sure I want someone to know that passage without finding it. I would not have appreciated the fact my Coop card will buy me candybars and Pepperidge Farm cookies and toothpaste when I'm out of money if I hadn't run out of money...