Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second "generation" spot was one of seven high-tech ads that the Hart campaign team hurried onto New Hampshire television screens during the last three weeks of the race...
...huge U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., through different gates and joined forces at the PX parking lot. They stopped briefly at Second Division headquarters, then drove to an on-base junior high school, where hundreds of unsuspecting students were attending classes. The boat team, meanwhile, sneaked undetected onto the base on the New River and, according to plan, faked engine trouble along "Generals' Row," the cluster of riverside houses occupied by the camp's commanding officers and their families...
...part, the U.S. was left literally bobbing at sea by the passage of events. Days after the last of the U.S. Marine contingent from Beirut International Airport had clambered aboard American vessels off shore, the frigate W.S. Sims lobbed a barrage of 20 naval shells onto Lebanese territory. The fire apparently was ordered to protect a small contingent of U.S. gunnery spotters working alongside Gemayel's Lebanese Army. Then the guns fell silent...
Computer hijinks at the Big H... Many of the several hundred students who have signed onto the order list for the new Apple Macintosh personal computer may mistakenly believe they are in line to receive the computer. An official with Harvard's Equipment Management store says these students were only signing up to get information about where to buy the Apple once they come...
...expressionist artist when most of the current crop of neoexpressionists were still, aesthetically speaking, in diapers. His mix of mass-media cliche with intimate confession, his abrupt shifts of gear in imagery and format, and his therapeutic desire to shovel his whole life-traumas, lusts, memories, hopes-onto the canvas, struck many younger painters as a fresh model of artistic character. In the past few years, aping this or that aspect of his work has almost become a cottage industry; West Broadway is full of painters solemnly brandishing fragments of Morley as their own, like leaf-cutting ants...