Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Illinois farmer himself, returned to his home state last week to inspect the devastation. The drought there is thought to be the worst in 30 years. In downstate Bond County, where some 80% of the corn crop has been destroyed, Block's National Guard helicopter swooped down onto a field of sorry, 6-in.-high cornstalk stumps. "I can personally feel the pain," he said as he looked out over Farmer Richard Weiss's acreage, "because I have looked at my own fields. They're not this bad, but they're bad." Block owns...
...inside illustrations, Ramp chose Matt Mahurin, a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., who has previously contributed drawings to the Op-Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Mahurin, 24, started by taking photographs, then worked paint and emulsion onto the prints, using a minimal amount of color and leaving much of the photographs visible. "I wanted to create a dreamlike effect," he says, "the feeling of seeing a photograph without the immediacy." Mahurin, who has always wanted to focus artistically on political and social issues, gave the assignment...
...bedroom light came on, blinding Young for a moment. She saw fractured images. A butcher knife shining against her roommate's throat. Her roommate's pinched, ashen face. A man in a blue nylon jacket and sneakers holding the knife. The stranger ordered Young to turn over onto her stomach and keep her face to the wall. For three hours on that cool night three months ago, he repeatedly raped and sodomized Young as her roommate lay trembling on the floor beside them...
...Last March, a 21-year-old mother of two walked into Big Dan's tavern in New Bedford, Mass., to buy a pack of cigarettes. A man in the bar threw her to the floor, stripped her and hoisted her onto a pool table, where he and three companions took turns raping, sodomizing and beating the woman. Other patrons cheered the rapists on, screaming...
...wettest of times, it was the driest of times. Devastating summer storms pounded places begging for relief from flooding, while the scorching sun broiled farmlands thirsting for rain. For the first time in three years, a full-blowing hurricane slammed onto the U.S. mainland, rumbling through Texas with a counterclockwise crunch of 115-m.p.h. winds. Galveston was swamped. Window panes popped from Houston's glass-and-steel towers, spewing shards over the streets below. What was hell in Texas held out some heavenly hopes for parts of the parched heartland, where the corn is withering on the stalks...