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Word: onto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burden thus fell onto the heavyweight shoulders of Consigli. He met the challenge with an aggressive assault, but Miller responded with an over-under move, resulting in a takedown and the eventual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chiefs Pin Grapplers, 24-15 | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

...Bruins transferred their emotional high onto the ice and seemed to be just a step ahead of the Harvard all the time. "Brown came to play with unbelievable emotion," said Harvard Coach John Dooley...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Icewomen Tackle Bruins, 2-1 | 12/9/1987 | See Source »

...fantasies, Jim looks up and sees the atomic blast over Hiroshima as a blazing crystal vision. Even at the end, when a plane drops bundles of Spam and Luckies like a Christmas pinata, Jim knows his perspective will be forever darkened. No child can see all this and hold onto childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man-Child Who Fell to Earth EMPIRE OF THE SUN | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...television show is programmed with light signals that can be picked up by the viewers' hand-held PowerJets. Once the barrage begins, the show's villains hurl laser blasts at the screen, drawing fire from the player. If the PowerJet suffers enough enemy "hits," it ejects its pilot onto the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Call These Toys? | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...novelty wanes. When Teddy Ruxpin first appeared, it captured the fancy of parents and children alike. But its phenomenal success ensured relentless imitation, so that this Christmas the talking-toy market is saturated. Of all the new dolls, only the Cabbage Patch Kids have made it, so far, onto Toy & Hobby World's latest list of the Top 20 toys. The Kids -- both talking and nontalking together -- rank sixth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Call These Toys? | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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