Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bakker sits in a corner of the white couch in his trinket-filled Spanish- style living room, looking like a schoolboy with bad grades. His hands are clasped between his knees, and his eyes remain fixed on the large black leather Bible spread before him. His pasty white face carries a sad, dazed expression. He is plainly shaken by his fall from grace. "We've almost died," he says. "I want to tell you . . . the first five weeks was like living hell." He pauses and touches the Bible. "At times we really wished they would have put a bullet...
...Prime Minister described her program as containing "real, radical policies for the next Parliament," with the key theme "power to the people." Said she: "We intend to spread ownership of homes, shares and pensions even more widely. We shall continue to sell industries back to the people. We want to extend greater choice in services like housing and education...
...litigations were complex and inconclusive. They also slowed the progress of aviation. Wilbur and Orville makes its way bravely through the fogs of legal and commercial arrangements. The author is more confident in technical matters and the manner in which aviation fever spread. He provides exhilarating details on the Wrights' daring exploits at flying exhibitions at home and abroad and dismaying information about their vain attempts to get the U.S. Government off the ground. Wilbur died of typhoid fever in 1912. Orville survived him by 36 years, or long enough to see his Flyer evolve into both a bonanza...
...with a little more hard work, Grant Blair can expect to spread that championship feeling...
...Herrin, a Yale graduate who killed his girlfriend Bonnie Garland with a hammer. "It was suggested," says her father Paul bitterly, "that she was a manipulative, rich, spoiled person who didn't treat this lovely man who murdered her nicely." Garland, a New York attorney, is working for the spread of legislation that gives victims the right to a voice at bail hearings and with the prosecution before a plea bargain is accepted. "I've told Jennifer's survivors that they can expect further desecration of her memory," he says...