Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally re-entered the building, Bob Marley was still playing in the background and the food was still looking good. By the end of the night I had concluded happily that the success of the luau was a testament to Hawaiian culture itself and I found myself holding onto warm ties I had made that evening, only regretting the frosty March climate outside...
...operate the tap on the keg after a while. Yet I remained torn. That November, the night after The Game, I walked down Mt. Auburn Street shaking my head at the beer-induced chaos around me--the vomit on the street, the police cars everywhere, the bodies collapsing onto one another as they fell out of the final clubs. I was still reluctant to be a part of that scene...
Kristine Kirkland, 5, squirms onto her mother'slap in the Davis Square DTA office and deliversher most pathetic puppy-dog expression. She wantsan audience for her reading of Cat in the Hat, andshe wants it now. As her mother explains theimportance of day care for single parents, littleKristine plows ahead with her impassionedrendition of the Dr. Seuss classic...
...where there is a sudden transition between deep water and shallow. Thus, as waves roll in, they are forced to leap up and over an underwater barrier. For example, "Killers"--the name of the break that Knox surfed at Todos Santos--channels big ocean swells across a deep canyon onto a submerged reef. Result: waves sweep in at heights of 10 to 20 ft., then rear up, like bucking broncos, to much greater heights. "A wave is a moving mountain," says Collins, "and what happens after you go off the edge is that the whole mountain tries to fall down...
LATE: "After a two-hour delay, Clinton stepped...onto a stage...'I didn't know his hair was that gray,' said second-grader Sam Melvin, 8. 'Or that his face was that red,' added classmate Kate Ferguson. --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel...