Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment movement spread like wildfire across the country for this simple reason. It brought together thousands of students and other people, not only because of the moral force of the issue, but because it promised a chance to affect change...
Maybe for Salesman, but Timebends is often muddled, even mawkish. In the final passage, Miller describes eyeing coyotes warily eyeing him on his Connecticut spread and sententiously proclaims, "We are all connected, watching one another. Even the trees." Still, if Miller the autobiographer refuses to offer shapely stories and easy pleasures, but instead insists on the uncomfortable, the unsettling and the contentious, that is what Miller the playwright has done for more than four decades. American literature -- and life -- has been vastly the richer...
...Making condoms available at all hours would make sure they would be used for preventing the spread of AIDS," Ithaca spokesperson John Lippincott told the Cornell Daily...
...questions of propriety that AIDS inevitably raises should be addressed. But regardless of the appropriateness of the sexual practices that account for much of the disease's spread, people are going to engage in them. And the disease will progress. So it ultimately remains necessary for Dr. Ruth's "sexual showercaps" to be promoted on TV, in the press and perhaps even by the Undergraduate Council. Despite the opinions of some Council members, condom dispensers in nooks and cranies around the houses are likely to offend only the timid and the hyper-moralistic. And the price of accomodating either group...
...Monsanto's blue bacteria indicate that the transferred genes have been stably inserted and do not readily migrate to other bugs. The same tests will now be repeated in the field -- and again, the results will be carefully tracked to see whether the bacteria survive and whether they spread into the environment...