Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to tie in a vote for Bork with a vote to get tough on crime, abandoning all pretense that the judge was a moderate. Then after the Judiciary Commitee voted not to recommend his nomination to the full Senate, Bork vowed to fight on, to bring his nomination onto the Senate floor to force a vote of the full Senate...
...already done so and formulated their own opinions about it. I don't need to add mine, especially since anything I could say about this lush, polished and beautiful album would only add to the mania. I don't want to encourage a new plucking of parvenus to roll onto the Springsteen juggernaut, a movement that in the last few years has already picked up every eight-year-old and his grandmother...
...Powell Street some protesters chained their wheelchairs to the city's century-old cable cars. Others crawled or rolled onto the tracks, shutting down the system for two hours. Many of the 134 arrested protesters were carted off in lift-equipped buses and vans...
...comfortable handsomeness. Today Mastroianni is exhausted from too many interviews on this Manhattan visit to promote his film Dark Eyes. But like a Casanova tantalized by the inevitability of one more conquest, he will of course accommodate another visitor. It is his pleasure and his business to walk onto the stage of a magazine page, to tell the familiar stories and improvise new ones. So the graceful hands sculpt air to illustrate a point. The smile invites. Even the famous world-weary shrug amounts to conspiratorial flirtation. "You pretend it's true," the gesture says, "and I'll pretend...
...Iran- contra hearings as the loyal secretary who helped Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North shred documents. She later landed on a Barbara Walters special and, while refusing tawdry offers and showing no tasteless impatience, has enlisted the William Morris Agency to represent her. She would like to latch onto an on-the-air TV job. "If I don't try this," Hall explains, "I might regret...