Word: thereon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know how the kid got the ball in thereon that play," Huskie Coach Paul Pawluk said...
...first U.S. patent law, passed in 1790, protected the invention of "any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine or device, or any improvement thereon not before known or used." But are items of manufacture necessarily inanimate? Apparently not. In 1930, Congress voted to approve the patenting of new plants produced by grafts, cuttings or other asexual methods. Half a century later the Supreme Court went even further and ruled that the law would apply to genetically engineered micro-organisms, such as a new strain of bacteria designed to gobble up oil spills. In the view of the court, "anything under...
...chief's literary ambition that prompted Bigam to examine the ribbon in Wiley's electric typewriter. And thereon lay a tale. Wiley had written someone a most revealing letter. "Where I've gone," he typed, "is of no critical importance and it's very doubtful that I'll ever return . . ." Just 16 days after the disappearance, Bigam issued the sort of announcement that might have been found in a whodunit by Agatha Christie (herself famous for a never explained ten-day absence in 1926). Wiley, said Bigam, had apparently "acted out the last chapter of his book . . . and rode...
...shock therapy: The sleeping boy is roused by a medieval horseman galloping out of the wardrobe and across his bed. The audience snickers, thinking this is funny; it may be. But that's not Gilliam's purpose. Six peculiar midgets appear in the same nerve-racking manner; from thereon, Time Bandits is an adventurous escapade, and you either reorient your demands or sit and squirm for the next two hours...