Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fatal shot hit the archduke in the jugular vein, the other struck the archduchess in the abdomen. From the archduke's throat a thin stream of blood spurted onto the face of an aide. "For God's sake, what has happened to you?" the archduchess cried out to her stricken husband. "Then she sank down from her seat," the aide recalled. "His Royal Highness said, 'Soferl, Soferl! Don't die. Live for my children.' " The aide grasped the slumping archduke by the collar and asked if he were in great pain. The dying archduke said...
...wants to discourage 26-year-olds who arrive in Porsches, but there just are not enough of these butterflies. The goal is to lure older, slightly stiffer ex-skiers-and their offspring-onto the slopes...
...Wildean observer as "the implacable in search of the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.") In the latest issue of the association's magazine, H.S.A. Committee Member Ralph Cook described Britain's 3,380,000 recreational fishermen as villains who lure "unsuspecting sentient creatures onto sharp-barbed hooks." The magazine called on the H.S.A.'s 3,500 members to frustrate anglers by peppering the water with pebbles, posting fake health notices at fishing spots and scaring potential catches away with underwater ultrasonic devices. For a lone fisherman, Cook suggested, "a nudge in the back works wonders...
...University plans to move the burnt of its computing off the main Science Center system onto a system of decentralized smaller computers connected probably by wires. However, officials have said they are unsure about what exactly such a system would look like...
Orwell's fear has not materialized because like nearly all predictions it has rested on flawed methodology. Prediction is usually no more than the projection of trends observable in the present onto the future in a straight and uninterrupted line. Therefore, the worse it is, the worse it will get. It has been noted that investment advisory services grow in bullishness as the stock market rises, and turn bearish as it goes down. In other words, they do not really anticipate events, they retrace them. Although predictions of this sort appear to look ahead, they are, in fact, always gazing...