Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...verge of recovering from its sustained pause, the economy has also been buffeted. The growth rate for the first quarter of 1977 has been scaled down half a percentage point, to 5%, because of the bad weather. President Carter's economic package of $31.2 billion, to be spread out over 20 months, has been jeopardized: a large chunk of the tax rebates will be eaten up by an extra $7 billion to $8 billion in fuel bills. On top of this, food costs are soaring as the cold blights Florida fruits and vegetables and farmers have to buy additional...
...Joseph Zizzi, "and they couldn't get in to us. I've never seen anything like it." Doctors could only telephone stricken residents or send word through CB operators about what to do for stricken people suffering chest pains and fainting spells. A fire in one house spread to eight others before heroic firemen could drag hoses through four blocks of drifted roads. One truck driver inched his way for two days to cover two miles, to bring fuel to the elderly at the Erie County Home and Infirmary...
From birth, Chogyam Trungpa Tulku was destined for great things. The son of poor nomads, he was born in a yak-skin tent near Pago-Punsum, one of the holiest mountains in Tibet. When he appeared, according to legend, pails of water turned to milk and a rainbow spread across the sky. The infant was declared to be the reincarnation of the tenth Trungpa Tulku, a supreme abbot of one of Tibet's strongest Buddhist sects. A royal coronation, attended by 13,000 monks, followed soon after, and the boy was raised to rule nearly a thousand square miles...
...Rosenthal continues to espouse her "know-nothing" philosophy on science by professing astonishment that such small, seemingly insignificant things as "genes" can possibly influence everyday affairs--we wonder if she believes in atoms? "Did the U.S. wage war in Indochina in order to spread American genes?" she queries in blithe ignorance. It is obvious to anyone with a modicum of reasoning powers that Professor Wilson had nothing of the sort in mind when he wrote his book, but was simply suggesting that biological factors as well as environmental effects influence man's well-known penchant for aggression. Such a suggestion...
Warmer weather spread across the country yesterday, alleviating one of the worst cold spells in the nation in decades, threatening to disrupt the foliage cycles of numerous trees in the Cambridge area, the delicate hormonal balance of Harvard students, and weekend plans for cross country ice skaters...