Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happen next." So complained President Carter at his news conference last week, and no one would disagree. At present, nine of the eleven Cabinet departments deal with energy policy in one way or another. So do five independent energy agencies. Programs of various sorts in the field have spread through the Washington bureaucracy like derricks in a West Texas oilfield: the Federal Energy Administration runs a total of 23 separate data-collection projects, the Federal Power Commission 40, the Interior Department 22, the Energy Research and Development Administration...
...more "curious social phenomena of the 20th century," as he rightly observes. It is no easy job, and the word paradox gets used freely. In the end, Lacey, the author of a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (and a staffer on the London Sunday Times), has spread his cloak over the puddle and gallantly invented a second Elizabeth to walk across it. If this act of prestidigitation is not a work of art, it is a work of considerable artifice...
...next ten hours the New Rochelle freight terminal was a battleground. Twenty sharpshooters spread out into houses and onto nearby roofs waiting for a shot at Cowan, and police helicopters whirled overhead. By midafternoon, police got inside the building and moved cautiously from office to office, looking for Cowan. They finally found him, dead by his own gun, as darkness descended...
...state of emergency did not end this opposition, Marwah continued, and now that it has been lifted, the conflict "may spread to the streets...
Fell seems to support what archeologists term "ultra-diffusionist" theories. Such theories maintain that most of civilization can be traced to the genius of a few peoples who spread culture throughout the world...