Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything--groceries, hardware, newspapers, tobacco. [The kitten is now on my knee, and advancing.] I bought eagerly: tomatoes, bread, cheese, a small tin bucket of yogurt, and a spoon to eat it all with. I took my spoils back to the cafe. The proprietor greeted me joyously, spread a newspaper out on the grimy kitchen table and bade me sit and eat. Then, kindly, he left me to enjoy my meal in peace while he tended to brewing kahves one demitasse-full at a time. [A boy just came up to ask for "bonbons." I indicated, as best I could...
Both candidates oppose the fearsome spread of nuclear weapons. But their discussion degenerated into a petty argument about who had pushed the issue first. Carter said he had this past May when he proposed a moratorium on the testing of nuclear devices. Ford claimed that he had taken the initiative in May 1975 when he called for a conference of nuclear suppliers, which has so far met six times. But Carter's chiding of Ford for not using his influence to stop the sale of nuclear fuel reprocessing plants by Germany and France to Brazil and Pakistan...
...counteract such criticisms, the Videla junta has hired a pair of public relations agencies to spread the good news in the U.S. and elsewhere that Argentina's economy is stabilizing and social unrest...
...fire men, policemen, Chicago transit workers and Federal Government employees who shared their V A monthly education benefits ($216 to $398) with the school but never went to class or snipped a hair. Worries Skinner: "With the potential for fraud so easy, the 'get mine' attitude can spread. It can destroy the moral fiber of a community...
Known as a radical cystectomy, it involved removal not only of the bladder (the body's reservoir for urine) but of other parts associated with the urinary tract as well: the prostate gland, the lymph nodes-which are being further examined to see if the cancer has spread to them-and fatty tissue around the bladder, and part of the urethra (the tube leading from the bladder through the penis). Such extensive surgery, Whitmore later explained, is routine in radical cystectomies (which his team performs at a rate of 80 to 100 a year), and does not mean that...