Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toad drove his pencil onward. Grudgingly, he thought, This is rather interesting. His handwriting, spasmodic at first, began to settle after a time into rhythmic, regular strokes, growing stronger, like an oarsman on a long haul...
...left by other means. Once the news of the Israeli seizure reached Tripoli, Jabril angrily threatened to avenge the interception with attacks on Israeli and even American airliners. Summoning journalists to a press conference, he declared: "Tell the world not to board American or Israeli planes. From this day onward, we will not respect civilians who take such planes...
SPINE-TINGLING MUSIC eerily permeates the scene. Slow, relentless footsteps pulse onward. Somewhere a shutter creaks in the wind. Suddenly, thunder splits the air. A flash of blinding lightning reveals a veiled figure, in its hand a weapon, a knife that brutally, inexpicably, and fatally goes slash in the night...
...Onward to Smith...
...nine-day Bachanalia on the island of Madeira in June. And if this seems a surfeit of baroque music, remember that June 16 is Bloomsday in Dublin, when admirers of James Joyce spend 18 hours retracing the steps of the hero of Ulysses from church to pub and onward...