Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...managed to climb back onto the vessel and, expecting to die, changed into his best suit. Then he huddled on the stern, trapped between towering flames and the cold sea. At last, four hours later, a rescue-helicopter pilot spotted Vea through the smoke and flew within ten yards of the burning deck to winch him to safety. Vea described his ordeal as "uncomfortably hot." Thirty-two other crew members were safely taken from lifeboats by a trawler; three men are presumed dead...
...hulk, leaking oil at a rate of about one ton an hour, posed a danger to the dozens of ships that round the cape every day. In a daring maneuver, a private helicopter, with air force planes monitoring the situation, lowered two divers onto the wreck to attach a towline to the tanker's bow. A powerful tugboat then began to tow the wreckage 100 miles out to sea, where it will be sunk in some 6,000 feet of water...
Another man whom I met in prison had been sentenced to six years for having transcribed passages out of the Bible for his friends and colleagues. It is very difficult to obtain a Bible. Once a group of Jamaican churchmen shipped some Bibles to Cuba. These were loaded onto a truck in the port of Havana and taken to a paper factory where they were recycled and used for government publications. Once José Maria Rivero Diaz, a Protestant minister, was surprised by a guard while reading a small Bible which had been smuggled into prison. He was savagely beaten...
...Salvadorans. Ramirez says U.S. Army personnel have twice opened valves to his water lines, causing his meat-packing plant to remain idle for two days because of inadequate water pressure. Green Berets visiting the ammunition dump have left open the cattle gate, allowing the animals to roam onto a main road. He claims the presence of more than 1,000 armed soldiers has disrupted work at the ranch and intimidated employees and their families, some 1,500 people in all. Most worrisome of all, he says, the appropriation of his property "makes me and my family potential targets for retaliation...
Meanwhile, Iraqi intelligence has privately accused government and army officers in the United Arab Emirates of smuggling more than $1 billion worth of arms to Iran. According to the Iraqis, weapons that were originally destined for the Emirates' own military forces have been loaded onto dhows and shipped across the gulf to Iran...