Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kansas City (pop. 513,000) is spread out over 316 square miles. That spaciousness is one of its charms, but distances make it difficult for visitors without cars to inspect the place. Actually, like many Midwestern cities-except Chicago-Kansas City is two cities: downtown and elsewhere. The city is now laboring to restore the dreary 140sq. block downtown area, which is populated only during office hours and abandoned...
...Senator Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, "by which is meant they have been submitted to electric shock or submerged in water until they passed out." Another common method is the "planton," whereby a prisoner is forced to stand for hours or even days with his weighted arms out stretched and feet spread far apart...
...more than a year, Eucharistic Congress planners, whose publicity budget alone ran to $296,000, had spread expectations that Pope Paul VI would appear, only to announce as the event drew near that the pontiff, at age 78, was too infirm to hazard the trip. (He had attended previous congresses in India and Colombia but missed the most recent one, in Australia.) But, in fact, the Pope's decision was largely political. For one thing, the pontiff was wary of the partisan overtones of visiting the U.S. during an election year and being greeted by President Ford. Instead...
...Miltons' analysis is not unique, nor is their discussion of it particularly revealing. But their chronology of the spread of the revolt against established authority, and their descriptions of the results of the dispute in their university show the extent to which the whole nation was engulfed in the fight against "elitist tendencies" within the Communist Party. Even the Miltons' children, then in junior high and high school, were caught up in the whirlwind. The Red Guard broke quickly into smaller factions, and every student, it seems, joined one or the other, and spent his time calling the others either...
While the coal strike spread, another costly strike moved to a resolution. Two weeks ago, more than 30,000 workers walked out of California's 78 canneries. The strike coincided with record harvests in a state that produces more than 50% of the U.S.'s canned fruits and 85% of its canned tomatoes. The walkout thus caused farmers to lay off 15,000 field workers near the peak of the picking season...