Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes at the Panama City airport when he arrived from Miami after Delvalle's speech. Calderon and his wife were forced to reboard the plane and exiled to neighboring Costa Rica. "I refused to go," Calderon said, "and then they started shoving me and eventually had to carry me onto the plane." Three U.S. journalists were also returned to their plane and sent to Costa Rica. Panama's principal opposition newspaper, La Prensa, and a TV station owned by the Delvalle family were closed...
Many attacks go far beyond a beating. In New York City's West Village last summer, a young tough wielding a golf club from a speeding car knocked a gay man unconscious, leaving him permanently brain damaged. In Fort Lauderdale, a pickup truck swerved onto the sidewalk outside a popular gay bar, killing a 33-year-old man. Randy Schell, a client advocate at Community United Against Violence, a San Francisco social-service agency, reports cases of men being beaten with logging chains and sliced with razors. "Anything you could imagine being used to desecrate another human being has been...
...inside, the fugitive braced a shoulder against the door and shoved back. But the lawmen burst in, reinjuring the suspect's broken finger. Reluctantly he allowed them to lead him into an elevator, then went limp. They lifted him up, carried him feet first through massive doors -- and onto the floor of the U.S. Senate...
...Bonnie was born, then in Champaign, Ill., where the family moved when the future Olympic champion was two. The story is often told that Charlie Blair received word of the birth of "yet another skater" over the public address system at the local rink. Bonnie the tot first ventured onto the ice with her shoes inside the smallest pair of figure skates her mother could find. "Skating was always part of our lives, and of course it became part of Bonnie's," says Eleanor Blair...
...time is about all they have to offer each other. The Actress (Jacqueline Sloan) tries to take advantage of a quiet moment alone with the Professor (Shawn Hainsworth). She desperately tries to seduce him. But onto the scene arrives the Actress's husband, the Ballplayer (Chris Cabot) to prevent the affair from ever happening. The script gives the illusion of suspense but never resolves the dissonance it creates. More questions seem to be asked than answered in this fragmented plot...