Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That probably did it. Francis Cardinal Spellman, speaking from his elevated position in the hierarchy of the U.S. Catholic Church, spread his wrath across a letter to her and forthwith made it public...
...hope that your elaborate spread on how we smog-eaten Angelenos all drive snappy Cadillacs into our private swimming pools doesn't create a stampede of suckers to come out here! It stinks out here; the phoniest town ever slapped together by stucco and fog, and sprinkled by glib-line underhanded promoters . . . "Go back East, young man, and eat again...
...auto workers, in convention in Milwaukee, voted a $10 million war chest to win from Ford some of the creature comforts of the "welfare state" (see below). Old John Lewis, whose miners have all kinds of welfare already, had put his men on a three-day week to spread the work around...
Joseph Stalin once asked a scornful question: "How many divisions has the Pope?" An answer was prepared last week. Pius XII decreed excommunication for Roman Catholics who "knowingly and freely . . . defend and spread Communism." Those Catholics who "enlist in or show favor to the Communist Party" and those who "publish, read or disseminate" Communist publications would be denied the sacraments...
...press spread the news of its family tragedy in black headlines, Ambassador Henderson had the task of identifying the bodies of his night-before guests. Most of their faces were readily recognizable, their expressions calm, as if death had come with merciful suddenness...