Word: contagion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the night the contagion spread. The small cities of Highland Park and Hamtramck, whose boundaries are encircled by Detroit, were under siege by looters. A four-mile section of Woodward Avenue was plundered. Twenty blocks of Grand River Avenue were in flames. Helicopters with floodlights chattered over the rooftops while police on board with machine guns squinted for the muzzle fire of snipers, who began shooting sporadically during the night...
...case-but no longer. Last week Peking was quarreling with no fewer than eight of its neighbors, many of whom have been shaken in recent weeks by Maoist riots, threats and demonstrations-plus retaliatory action by their own citizens. Whether Peking consciously intended it or not, the contagion of the Cultural Revolution has lately spilled over China's borders, infecting overseas Chinese and inflaming their non-Chinese neighbors...
These older, reckles lyrics excited me because their contagion was evident; ears attuned to them gained appetites for "poeticism" and a lot of earnest, though not always men leapt up to supply them. Paul Simon (Garfunkel's partner) gives us lines freshly fallen silent shroud of snow," important, he gives us his own self-image: "A poet with a one-man band." "I have my bo--oks/And my po--e--try to protect me, he says. Mick Jagger write a 7-stress line Off My Cloud" and resuscitates the blues poetry of Sam Cooke, Otis Red Dog Herskovitz. The Lovin...
...Unless all sides can be fully heard in a climate of anger, fear and an atmosphere of calm rather than in. frustration, the future of all such public programs may suffer from the contagion of community suspicion and hostility." McCormack is the first gubernatorial candidate to enter the controversy, and though he took on position on the location or need of the road, some of his advisors are known to oppose the highway altogether...
...hatted French nobleman named Count de Dion (later to be immortalized by having a racing rear axle named after him), who drove his steamer from Paris to Rouen, a distance of 79 miles, at an average speed of 12.6 m.p.h. Daredevil De Dion could not possibly have guessed the contagion he was spreading. Other races followed quickly-to Bordeaux, Marseille, Dieppe, Nice, Trouville, all the way across the Continent to Vienna. The British were a little late joining the fun: in the early days, by law, British motorists had to be preceded by men on foot crying their approach...