Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Power outages were widespread, leaving homes dark and cold. In Oregon, some 27,000 customers were without power on Friday. Arkansas Power & Light Co. sent out workers with guns to blast ice off tree limbs that were threatening to topple onto electric lines. The cold in Washington, D.C., caused dozens of traffic lights to go haywire, each flashing "as if it had a mind of its own," according to a city engineer...
...main goal of hospital officials is to be rid of Bouvia, but they can hardly wheel her out onto the sidewalk and leave her. Several sympathetic individuals have offered her shelter, but she has declined all such overtures, because she wants medical support while she dies; which is to say that she is determined to stay right where she is. The hospital is equally determined. "We will have her out of the hospital," says Riverside County Deputy Counsel William Katzenstein. "I assure you of that...
...Mules bounced back with 16 seconds left in the period as a net-bound Anne Whittemore slapshot bounced off a Harvard stick and onto the blade of linemate Susan McNiven, who pushed it past the outstretched arms of goalie Cheryl Tate...
SOON JOHN got onto the subject of another fortune tellers staple: He asked me what I wanted to do when I grow up, and I groped for stock phrases we all keep in our memory recall for our relatives: maybe journalism, maybe community organizing or something. "Yeah," he said, "I see journalism becoming more sure for you in three years, you'll have a solid direction by then. And later, the journalism will play into the community endeavors. Also, somewhere in there, you'll learn and use the Law." Here, I began to protest. "Not necessarily law school," he amended...
David Bowie: Let's Dance (Bowie and David Mallett). A sexy song fused onto a magical love story set in the big cities and the outback of Australia...