Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most the Nationalists could hope to fall back, into the vast reaches of south China and onto the island of Formosa. But barring a miracle, they had no prospect of stopping the Red tide...
Last week at Manhattan's Blue Angel, she squirmed onto a stool and let her coltish legs dangle, ankles flapping. She twisted bony fingers through her hair and blessed her audience with a tired smile. Then she sang-and at the first note, her voice erased all the gawkiness...
Rushing to work last week, John Doe, American, swung his car onto the freeway-only to discover that the posted speed limit had been reduced from 60 m.p.h. to 50 m.p.h. When he stopped at a gas station for a refill, he learned that overnight the price had gone up 2? per gal. At his office he felt unusually cool because the thermostats had been pushed down a couple of degrees to a brisk...
...over in 124 seconds. Most of the 70,000 spectators, some of whom paid as much as $125 for a seat, were as bewildered as the challenger. Men who were lighting their pipes missed the whole thing. By the time those in the rear rows had jumped onto their chairs to see over the heads of those who had jumped onto their chairs in front, the match looked like a crap game. In the ring everyone seemed to be crouched on the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan was counting-three, four, five-over the dazed challenger. The referee threw...
...occasional oasis of unexpected harmony, but otherwise blended monotonously into the parched badlands of rock. I Want to Hold Your Hand, the Beatles' biggest hit single-it has sold 5,000,000 copies since 1963-was a cliché boy-girl lyric and a simple tune hammered onto the regulation aaba pop-song structure. But the boys found their conventional sound and juvenile verses stultifying. Says Paul McCartney: "We didn't like the idea of people going onstage and being very un real and doing sickly songs. We felt that people would like it more, and we would...