Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could, we would send our best people every year, but since the races aren't very important we do our best to spread the wealth," Higginson said...
...that Clemson beat the point spread in nearly every football game this fall, then fooled everyone by turning creampuff against Pitt in the Fiesta Bowl...
...Bergland, 48, a three-term Congressman from northern Minnesota, is an authentic sodbuster who knows the ups and downs of farming at first hand. Son of a mechanic and farmer, he spent two winters as a carpenter to work off debts before making a go of a 600-acre spread planted to seed and feed grain hard by the Canadian border near Roseau, Minn...
...father of six children. Though he lost his first House race to an entrenched Republican in 1968, he ran a better-financed, more moderate campaign to win two years later. Last November he won a third term with 73% of the vote. When word began to spread that Bergland might be Carter's choice for Agriculture, the phone in his Roseau office began to jangle. The folks back home did not want him to leave...
After receiving the vision, Presbyterian Bright became a lay evangelist at U.C.L.A. He concentrated on gaining converts who would influence other students-athletes, political activists, beauty queens. His Campus Crusade spread quickly to other U.S. universities (currently 426) and beyond. Its slogan became "Today the campus, tomorrow the world." The staff now numbers 5,300, of whom 1,100 are foreign nationals working in their own countries (84 of them). Among recent staff recruits is Ralph Drollinger, a 7-ft. 2-in. basketball center from U.C.L.A., who passed up pro bids to join the crusade's Athletes in Action...