Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still dark when the retinue sets off for a day's campaigning. The heat, brilliant and soaking, comes soon after first light. On the edge of a town, the caravan shudders to a stop. The candidates pile onto the flatbed back of a pickup truck, smear on dabs of melting suntan cream and flip the switch of a cassette player. To the scratchy strains of martial music, they start downhill, making a short tour and ending up under the spreading roots of the giant ceiba trees, planted to provide a parasol of shade over the baking town square...
...close ties could prove politically devastating. Other executives have been issuing dire warnings, adjusting revenue projections, and lobbying in Washington for relief King has, in effect, chosen to ignore the significant changes that Reagan has slated for federal state relations--most notably the proposed dumping of massive aid programs onto the states. King has asserted that "there were will be not winners and losers" under the New Federalism. Accordingly, he has drawn up a 1982 state budget that assumes an increase of $38 million in federal aid--at the same time that total federal aid to state and local governments...
...vast twisted litter. Vultures like to sit in sinister profile upon the dead trees; they give the scene an eerie stylized hellishness. This particular mesquite has been the victim of chaining and spraying: crop-dusting planes swoop in low over the range and spray a chemical called TORDON 225E onto the mesquite. A year or more later, a pair of bulldozers about a hundred yards apart make their way across the same area dragging an enormous ship's anchor chain between them...
Greg Britz scored the first Harvard goal just 47 seconds into the game and Cornell's Harvard is running for cover, as the fans in Sections 11, 12 and 13 have unleashed a barrage of tennis balls onto the Big Red net minder. As Hayward flees for the protection of his own bench the following make appearances on the ice: a large fish, which Cornell defenseman Joe Gallant flips back into the stands with his stick: a large squid or octopus, which positions itself just outside the Cornell crease; and finally, a live chicken--spray-painted Crimson, of course--courtesy...
...Bushmaster" gun should be taken off? Explains McChrystal: "At one meeting people would say, 'Take the Bushmaster off and put the TOW on,' then at the next they'd say, 'No, we ought to have both.' Then a new officer would be rotated onto the review board and say, 'What's the matter with you guys? That thing can't carry both. Change it.' " The vehicles ended up indeed carrying both, and costing $1.4 million apiece. Another problem: the Army decided that it wanted more armor...