Word: onto
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...Orwellian Faculty Council's vision of the University as an "oasis of free speech" is one where Adolph Hitler can goose-step onto campus and "speak freely in favor of anti-Semitism" (Crimson, 5 April), while the victims and opponents of Nazi death camps and slaughter are tried for "political crimes" by a revived Draconian Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). That Harvard brands students and others who protest genocide as "enemies of free speech" while guaranteeing "academic freedom" to the war criminals who commit genocide is an outrageous provocation. The sick sociopaths who run this place have outdone...
After a delayed arrival into Casablanca, the group was whisked onto a Flag Tour bus. With only a few hours to recover from jetlag, the group was bussed to Rabat...
...contras'war is both justified to punish Nicaragua for supporting the leftist insurrection in neighboring El Salvador, and necessary to harass the Sandinistas into giving up their ambitions of fomenting Communist revolution throughout Central America. Only two weeks ago, the Senate tacked $21 million for the contras onto an appropriations bill for famine relief in Africa, which was slated for quick approval...
...recently as last month, U.S. sources claim, there were "fairly large" shipments of arms and equipment being loaded from points in northern Nicaragua onto seagoing vessels for trips into the Gulf of Fonseca, between Nicaragua and El Salvador. The matériel was transferred onto small vessels on the island of Conchagũita, less than ten miles off the Salvadoran coastal province of La Union, for disbursement to various guerrilla groups of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) in southern El Salvador...
...light comedy-humor arising not out of plot but out of the endless vagaries of the human character. "I always felt that if Terms of Endearment lives as a comedy, I would be proud. If not, I would be a little lost." Trying to translate that kind of humor onto film was not easy however. Brooks tinkered endlessly with his script and added a new romance for Aurora, the Nicholson character who was not in McMurtry's novel. Sometimes he made his actors go through half a dozen takes, with half a dozen different approaches, so that he could...