Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ultimately, we realize that no amount of editorializing can convince the masses not to celebrate the millennium. Nevertheless, it is important that this newspaper have its opposition on record. After all, if at the stroke of midnight next Friday night, God's Kingdom does descend onto earth, many of us are likely to be banished to Hell. At least now we can say that we're political dissidents...
...minister is used to the limelight, and being recently named one of Talk magazine's "top talkers" was amusing--but the article didn't make it onto his antique-adorned mantle...
...occasion she wrote, "God is going to use me to reach the young people, I don't know how, I don't know when." Her last diary entry, written 20 minutes before she died, was a drawing of a pair of eyes crying; from the eyes fell 13 drops onto a rose--images Darrell says had been described to him in an earlier phone call from a man he did not know...
...hunt was maddening. All summer and into the fall, a bunch of FBI irregulars called the special surveillance group--the "G's" in bureau lingo--shadowed Stanislav Gusev when he angled for his favorite parking spot near the State Department, then settled onto a well-worn bench. Whenever Gusev, 54, a technical specialist for the Russian intelligence service, fiddled with something in his pocket, the G's state-of-the-art radio-signal detector would come to life, indicating that a faint low-frequency transmission was emanating from a bug somewhere in the gray State offices...
...motif of the Chinese half of the banner and the American stars and stripes that is at the heart of this play. From the very beginning, color is central to the understanding of the contrasts between China and the consumerist American society with which Bibi identifies herself. Bibi comes onto the stage dressed in rainbow colors; in contrast, the only colors that are allowed in China, according to Karen, are "gray, blue and green." This is part of the goal of director Due Quach '00 to present "true historical events in an art form...