Word: spilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diego's morning Union and evening Tribune (combined circ. 317,000), the twin flagships of the Copley chain, the Times' move went over like an oil spill. "I look upon this as an invasion," fumed Union Editor Gerald Warren, a sometime White House press secretary who returned to his old home from Washington 2½ years ago to take up his current post. "We're itching for the fight. Our juices are running. We're going to give them the fight of their lives." In response, the Tribune is adding ten reporters, bringing its editorial staff...
...laughed sympathetically. A bunch of ten-year-old boys wearing Red Sox baseball caps started jumping up and down in their seats just in front of me, causing me to spill orange juice all over my lap. Their mothers brought them under control, but only after going beserk themselves. A band of spring-break student gypsies surrendered to the madness and lit up a joint...
...minutes, hovering and circling over the sea, French navy helicopters dropped load after load of depth charges. They were striking back at a very real enemy, the wreck of the American-owned supertanker Amoco Cadiz, which had leaked oil for two weeks after history's biggest spill...
...Roscoff announced mobilization meetings. Newspapers all over the country were flooded with offers of money and goods for Brittany's hard-hit fishermen; a radio station collected everything from pitchforks to rubber boots. A folk music group offered the earnings from a special new recording about the spill for the cleanup. Thousands of young people seized the catastrophe for political protest, shouting antinuclear-power slogans during a march in the port city of Brest (example: "Oil-covered today, radioactive tomorrow...
...several of Greene's other novels, it is not any overwhelming personal sense of justice that prompts Castle to spill the "Uncle Remus" plans to the Russians. ("I don't know what justice means," Castle snaps at one point.) It is rather his lingering sense of gratitude toward his dead friend Carson, along with the requisite twinge of guilt, and his feeling that out of his love for Sarah he should help save her people from suffering. A Greene character would never make such a courageous gesture out of ideological conviction; although this is perhaps just as well, given...