Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coherent. Nevertheless, she was expected to be hospitalized for at least ten days. Nixon's personal physician, Dr. John Lundgren, and Neurologist Jack M. Mosier said the stroke had been caused by a small hemorrhage or clot in the right cerebral cortex. Unless the effects of the stroke spread, Pat Nixon was expected to recover, but it remained uncertain whether she would be able to walk normally again...
...said that unless there is an actual outbreak, the vaccinations should be limited to "high-risk" people, notably the aged and chronically ill. A rival polio-vaccine pioneer, Dr. Jonas Salk, disagrees. Describing the vaccine as safe, he pointed out that even a partial immunization program reduces the spread of the virus by closing what he calls the immunity gap. Said he: "Vaccine is the most useful tool we have for preventing viral disease...
...members of a colony, trigger fight or flight reactions, or are used to mark a path toward food sources. At Beltsville, Jacobson has identified the sex pheromones of the American cockroach. Oriental fruit fly, Mediterranean fruit fly and southwestern pine tip moth. Synthetic forms of such chemicals could, if spread in large quantities over an insect-infested field, so confuse male insects that they might never find females and mate with them...
...model shots - even outtakes from the classic turkey Tora! Tora! Tora! - are more or less artfully blended to give a vague feeling of what a modern naval engagement must be like - the large distances separating the antagonists when they launch their planes, the sickening speed with which the flames spread when they find their targets. But there is no real sense of the flow of fortune in the battle - the camera shies away from any at tempt at analysis. The Japanese, led by Toshiro Mifune, are neatly dressed and stoic (a useful virtue if most of your dialogue...
...this feistiest of Fourths, it will not be Oh, Say Can You See? in New York harbor. There the longest, widest, heaviest, starriest national banner ever lofted will spread amaze amid the tops'ls of tall ships and raise the first gulp of the day. Hung athwart the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and visible far at sea, the superflag measures 193 ft. by 366 ½ ft., bigger by half than a football field, weighs 1 ½ tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker...