Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...died standing up." So begins Interviewing Matisse, a promising first novel by Lily Tuck. From its gripping opening sentence onward, the novel provides a crazy yet satisfying mixture of revelations about death, love, Paris, dogs and, of course, Matisse...
...like to see people do what they're not expected to do. I like to see how slow things relate to fast things, I like charged-up rhythm. One reason I make up dance concerts is that then I have something to watch that I like." A thousand steps onward...
...structure. This enables engineers to build roller coasters with the steepest possible inclines and most sharply banked curves to create the illusion of breakneck speed. All roller-coaster trains are actually gravity propelled after the initial chain-drawn ascent and thus steadily slow down from the first big hill onward...
Once upon a time, actors like Spencer Tracy (in Stanley and Livingstone) strode off to explore Africa with their pith helmets set squarely on their brows, their bush jackets neatly pressed and a chorus bawling Onward, Christian Soldiers on the sound track...
Batu charged onward to conquer Poland and Hungary, and it was probably only the death in 1242 of Batu's uncle, the Great Khan Ugedey (he was apparently - poisoned by a jealous woman in his entourage), that saved Western Europe from the fate of Kiev. Batu decided to retrench and consolidate his rule over the khanate of the Golden Horde. Spread thin though they were, the Mongols of the Golden Horde ruled Russia for more than two centuries, and it was a harsh rule. Mongol tax collectors beggared the peasantry, and occupied Russia remained completely isolated from what the West...