Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five miles in mud season. "I've had to jack myself out two or three times this year," he says. "The trick is to get under the car with this thing called a handyman jack, get it up three or four feet and then swing the car sideways onto solid ground...
Along with the briskly enforced blockade, the British are considering such actions as sabotage and the blowing up of Argentine supply dumps in the Falklands by special commando units infiltrated onto the islands, as they were onto South Georgia. Last week, the government first issued a rare denial, then a more routine "no comment," at reports that small groups of British troops are already on the Falklands...
Another possibility is that the British could find a way to smuggle their Harriers, which do not need airstrips, onto remote areas of the Falklands, decreasing the vulnerability of British aircraft carriers and bringing the fighters closer to their targets. Says a senior British naval officer: "If we could get Harriers covertly ashore, it would give us an enormous advantage, perhaps the winning card...
With the score 81-77, the Crimson needed to win the 4x400 relay to clinch the meet Brad Bunney got the squad off -to a good start with a very fast opening leg. Sprinter Jay Hudson took the baton and held onto the 50-yd. lead for most of the lap but just before he handed off. Northeastern's Mark MacKinnon made his move and cut the lead in half. That was as close as the Huskies ever got, though, as Bennet Midlo extended the Crimson lead and Dwayne Jones held on to give Harvard a comfortable...
...COULD ACCUSE Gregg Lachow and the other makers of Woyzeck of getting inadvertantly lost in mainstage space. They are in love with it. Stepping inside, the audience ventures almost shyly onto a vast Siberian wasteland, its cellophane spaces crackling with emptiness, its border indistinct. Mountains of some synthetic material rim the flatness of every available inch of the hall's acres of aisle and plank; throughout the production, unexpected portions of this flatness rise and fall, thrusting the landscape of events into strange non-Euclidean configurations. A friend of the production has advanced the hypothesis that Lachow conceived the whole...