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Word: onto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wally Joyner sprang onto the American League scene last year, posting several outstanding rookie numbers by the All-Star break. Between banging out singles and covering the bag on defense, Joyner spent a good deal of his 1986 seasons on first base. For the batter, a hit represents only one of eight ways to reach first. Name the other seven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1987 Sports Cube Baseball Trivia Quiz | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

Herold explained that the opening of two additional city-operated shelters last winter increased the number of homeless people who depended upon the facilities for food and bedding--and that means more people will be forced onto the streets at the end of April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Looks To Establish Permanent Shelter | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

Tuesday morning, clutching my by-now dog-eared list of terms, I walked onto the dock. I watched the early Dunster boat turn around near Weeks footbridge, hoping to figure out how this feat was actually accomplished...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: All for One and One for All | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...approach baffles some theatergoers and irritates others. It muffles many of the play's laughs and, more troublesome at the box office, keeps Chamberlain from maximizing his easy charm. Yet audiences who come to see him may depart delighted at having seen Page in full cry, sloshing her drinks onto people, cramming her mouth with sandwiches, then abruptly divining where her seance went wrong with a fierce delight that would surely have bewitched Coward himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Down-to-Earth Happy Medium: BLITHE SPIRIT | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...team's success to modifications in surgical technique. The Swedes had transferred the adrenal tissue directly into a C-shaped structure in the middle of the brain called the caudate nucleus, where dopamine exerts its primary effects. The Mexicans, by contrast, used surgical staples to anchor the cells onto the exterior of the caudate, which is continually bathed in cerebrospinal fluid. This nourishing bath may have helped the graft survive. In addition, Madrazo says, he transplanted "much more" tissue than did his predecessors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Normal: Hope for Parkinson's victims | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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