Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will to resist tyranny, were ebbing in Europe in 1947. They are flowing again today. It is this-the will to live as free men and to go forward toward a future which, while it cannot be precisely foreseen, can yet be believed in-which has arrested the spread of reactionary Communist aggression . . . The pressures in Europe are beginning to reverse...
...boomtown fever was not confined to the Bund and midtown shopping area. At White Cloud airport a C.N.A.C. pilot exclaimed: "My God, there are five new buildings here since my trip last week!" From banyan-shaded Shameen Island (site of the original foreign concessions) the boom fever spread to equally fashionable Tung Shan, where Premier Sun Fo and other officials maintain swank Western-style homes. New arrivals vied eagerly for the few remaining houses and apartments. Key money for a dingy, two-room flat ran as high as $4,000 U.S. On the outskirts of the city hundreds of coolies...
...Sent for Me. Armstrong's two years on river boats spread his fame up & down the Mississippi. When he came back to New Orleans, he was met at the landing by cheering crowds. Among them, a young white trombone player from Texas named Jack Teagarden waited at the gangway to say hello, asked to shake hands with Louis. Teagarden, soon to become a great name in jazz himself, remembers his first look at Louis: "[He] wasn't much to look at. Just a little guy with a big mouth. But, man, how he could blow that horn!" Louis...
...charges against her were grave: that she had violated state laws, and that she was indifferent to wide-spread immorality among the inmates. But the outrageous attacks upon Dr. Van Waters for many months before McDowell dismissed her had convinced many that not only the charges themselves but the motives behind them were suspect. These attacks were carried out through the agency of two Boston newspapers, and the two men who had been investigating the Reformatory last year were mysteriously tied up with the papers. One "prober" was McDowell's deputy, Frank Dwyer. The other was State Senator Michael LoPresti...
...seven years, the utility companies have added 6,000,000 customers to their service, and have almost doubled the total amount of current they feed to all consumers. On top of that, industry has changed from three shifts a day, which spread the load, to the single shift, which concentrates it at one time. The result has been that most companies now have only a 4% emergency reserve of power...