Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials last week began what they saw as the only solution: unload the cargo and spread it out over 1 1/2 acres to cool. Experts attribute the incendiary quality of the Fort Providence cargo to Louisiana's hot climate and to moist air pockets trapped in the load that kept the coal from cooling. Total cost of snuffing out the near barbecue...
That confrontation suddenly seemed at hand last week -- for America and for the world. Since he took power in 1979, the Ayatullah has threatened to spread his uncompromising brand of Islamic fundamentalism across the fragile, oil- rich states that line the Persian Gulf and to upset the global balance of power. He has sought his goals openly in Iran's seven-year war with Iraq, and he has promoted them stealthily through terrorist bombings and kidnapings abroad. Now Khomeini's brooding presence loomed larger than ever as he seemed ready, even eager, to take on a host of nations...
...seven injured and ten arrested, as more than 40 shootings, assorted rock throwings and other violent incidents have turned the Southern California highways into a terror zone. Last week alone brought 19 reported episodes of gunfire, five arrests and an all but surreal suggestion that the crackpot violence had spread to the skies...
Israeli officials, eager to improve relations with the Soviet Union, have responded gingerly to Radio Moscow's threats. "The Soviet Union itself knows it faces no danger from Israel," declared Foreign Minister Shimon Peres last week. Israeli officials privately spread the word that the Jericho II has a range of only 500 miles, which would mean it could strike Arab capitals but would fall short of Soviet territory. At the same time, however, it is believed that Israel is working on a longer-range version that would indeed bring the southern edge of the Soviet Union within its reach...
...older sister to help her survive the crippling emotional deprivation of orphanhood. And so she grew up and got married and became a psychotherapist. It was only when her second husband died of cancer that the sense of loss suddenly reawakened, that the "black ink of anxiety spilled and spread, saturating the fabric of my life...