Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenderness of this grasp was deceiving. With his free hand, he raised his long club high over his head, and brought..the club crashing down on the girl's head. The force of the swing nearly lifted the trooper from the floor; the girl screamed and blood cascaded onto Dean Glimp's blue carpet" (The Harvard Strike, L. Eichel...
...strange that Shinagel would blame the press, arguably the greatest defender of free speech, for interfering with free expression. Speaking to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Shinagel noted that at baseball games, when a fan jumps out of the bleachers and onto the field, the television cameras don't usually focus on the errant fan. Shinagel reasons that by ignoring objectionable behavior, the press would help curtail such incidents. People who wouldn't be deterred by a night in jail and a trip to court would think twice if they knew they wouldn't get any free publicity...
...show follows six children around after school: one runs away from her fighting parents, one strikes out in Little League, one (now, we must make some concessions to this storyline) is harassed by chunks of a brick wall that turn into living beings after she has shined their shapes onto the wall with an overhead projector, two are frightened away by a store with dancing groceries, and one is drawn into the events of a movie he is watching. Naturally, the six dejected children band together and by the end of the second act everyone is happy again...
...boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink of rum! Now the entire party, pulsing with the calypso beat, dances around the table like frenzied Jamaican dockworkers. Lift six-foot, seven-foot, eight-foot bunch! Monstrous arms spring out of the shrimp tureens and leech onto the faces of the revelers. Who on earth has possessed them...
...permitted to glimpse only through the silk-fringed curtains of his golden palanquin, the young ruler set up a projector by which he eagerly devoured Tarzan movies, Henry V and, best of all, home movies of his own capital. Often, he recalls, he would take a telescope onto the palace roof and wistfully gaze at the boys and girls of Lhasa carelessly going about their lives...