Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eleven members of the freshmen class have made their way onto the squad and most should be able to contribute immediately. Leading the Class of '91 is Scott Jaffe, a nationally-ranked breaststroker who can be successful at most anything. Jaffe may be asked to swim many events this year to give the Crimson additional depth...
...second I stepped onto the court," Phillips said, "football season was over...
...smoke cleared, there was a sense that the disaster need not have been so enormous, the chaos so complete. For almost an hour after the fire erupted, trains continued to pull into King's Cross, some still discharging passengers. Confused station workers directed several passengers onto an escalator that headed directly into the blaze. "The ceiling above was on fire and debris was falling down, but the escalator was still moving," complained Passenger Andrew Lea, who was able to get off the death belt...
When the brown, 690-page congressional report on the Iran-contra fiasco finally thumped onto desks in Washington last week, one of the officials most keenly interested in the scandal vowed not to pick it up. Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh cannot use any testimony that witnesses gave to the House and Senate committees under grants of immunity. Walsh and his staff of 28 lawyers, 20 FBI agents and six IRS investigators must build their own criminal cases against any lawbreakers. Nonetheless, the tightly reasoned, judiciously stated majority report, signed by all of the committees' 15 Democrats as well...
...this month, a group of his supporters held a rally at Johannesburg's Khotso House, headquarters of a dozen antiapartheid groups. Only a year earlier, white occupants of an apartment house across the street had caused a minor riot at the same spot by tossing flowerpots and other missiles onto the crowd from their balconies. This time curious residents again peered from their balconies, but no one down below thought of ducking. Even though the apartment building is restricted by law to whites only, most of the onlookers were black...