Word: onto
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Though long-haul passenger trains in the U.S. have been equipped with toilets since before the Civil War, they went on dumping effluent right onto the tracks until states passed laws in recent years forcing them to clean up their act. Amtrak, however, was given a federal exemption from such regulations. The practice has irked railway workers and bystanders, who have sometimes fallen afoul of the raw waste from speeding trains...
Perhaps because he thought his father killed himself, suicide always hung like a shadow over Berryman's life, Simpson writes. She recalls an incident after a drunken prenuptial party in New York when Berryman fought with his mother and then leapt onto the narrow railing of her apartment terrace many stories above the city streets...
...Crusaders, who went on to win the game, 86-67, slipped some ice cubes onto the Crimson hands, and Harvard cooled off faster than you can say "Look out, zamboni on the basketball floor...
Along with senior Government officials and judges, House members will receive a 7.9% salary increase in 1990 and a 25% hike in 1991. Tacked onto the raise was a ban on outside speaking fees or honorariums, which enable House members to boost their salaries by as much as $26,850 a year by giving pep talks to lobbyists and industry groups...
Five musicals, adapted from familiar favorites, strut onto Broadway. A wunderkind offers a Caine Mutiny-style drama for the Ollie North...