Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just when you were beginning to think that you had the worst social life on campus, that doing your laundry on Friday night might be more productive than looking for a party, onto the scene walk anti-socialites Lawrence and Joanna...
...transition to using cases actually started about a decade ago," said Jensen. "I moved to being more of a moderator, a coach and a guide. I somehow or another stumbled onto the importance of it at Rochester, but [at the B-School] I learned how to do it better...
...steady, cold drizzle fell on the austere black hearse as it moved slowly off the grounds of the Imperial Palace and onto the streets of Tokyo. Thousands of Japanese watched its silent passage, some bowing, some weeping. At Shinjuku Gyoen, an imperial garden, the black-painted palanquin was hoisted by 51 members of the Imperial Guard. Above, silk curtains draped the coffin made of Japanese cypress. Within rested the body of Hirohito, the reluctant monarch who on Jan. 7, at 87, succumbed to cancer after occupying the Japanese throne for 62 years...
...keyboard is not only becoming pervasive across the U.S. but is also affecting the way music is learned and appreciated. Ever since the boards first hit the market in the early 1980s, rappers, rockers and street musicians have known that they were onto something cool. The sleek, usually portable instruments offered a solid beat, a big sound and all sorts of groovy techno- twists at a manageable price. Today keyboards are about a $600 million-a- year business. Some 15 million have been sold in the U.S. alone, where unit sales of electronic keyboards have outpaced the traditional acoustic-piano...
...trudged up the stairs of Burr Hall, threw open the door of the History and Literature office, dropped two rather thick black binders onto the receiving desk, and smiled...