Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, the American levels of belief in God and afterlife have remained fairly constant since 1948. But the deep disenchantment with religion that spread through the '60s and early '70s seems to be ending. The percentage who think religion is "increasing its influence on American society " has climbed from 14% in 1970 to 39% last year. Today, 71% of those interviewed say they are members of a church or synagogue, and in a typical week 40% attend services...
Last week that was certainly the case. A wildcat strike that started at a Cedar Coal Co. mine at Cabin Creek, W. Va., suddenly spread to include all of the state's 60,000 miners, plus 10,000 of their fellows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and Colorado. The miners had lost a total of $24 million in wages by week's end, and U.S. coal output had fallen by 6 million tons, worth $150 million...
Mars was a distant shore and the men spread upon it in waves ... The first wave carried with it men accustomed to spaces and coldness and being alone ... They came and made things a little less empty, so that others would find courage to follow...
...would be fearful of what would happen to their property under black rule. Chief among the stayers might be many of Rhodesia's 6,000 white farmers, who have consistently blocked movement toward majority rule. One of them, the owner of a 10,000-acre corn and cattle spread near Selukwe in the Rhodesian midlands, happens to be Ian Smith...
...highest levels of the Federal Government. On the one hand, the nation's overseas sales of atomic power plants, equipment and services swell U.S. export earnings by a cool $1.5 billion a year. On the other, the proliferation of nuclear reactors can also lead to the spread of nuclear weapons-meaning atom bombs...