Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter appealed to blacks perhaps even more strongly by making certain symbolic gestures. When black legislators had a party in their part of town, they sent a routine invitation to the Governor. Much to their surprise, he showed up, and word spread quickly that the Governor was eating chitlins with the brothers. In the state capitol in 1974, Carter placed a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. on a wall amid pictures of other Georgia notables, while an integrated audience sang We Shall Overcome. Many blacks who did not vote for Carter swung over to his support. Now his presidential...
...prosecutions or convictions. Fed up in 1679, Parliament drew on earlier common law practices and passed its celebrated Habeas Corpus Act, which provided that anyone keeping someone in custody could be required to "produce the body" and show that he was legally holding it. The Great Writ has since spread to include attacks on all manner of wrongful custody-from improper confinement in mental institutions to a divorced father's spiriting away of his children. Today all 50 U.S. states permit habeas corpus petitions (or their like), and so does federal law. But while the U.S. Constitution bars suspension...
...good pitcher," Tiant said of Jenkins. "He's doing better than I do. Before, I was the only guy to win 20, but last year we spread the wins around. Everyone has to do his part...
Imagine for a moment that some inventive and omnipotent god offered the nation a device that would greatly advance the spread of information. In return, the deity required that the President resign, that stacks of sensitive Government and corporate secrets be made public, and that the country be buried in a sea of paper. There would probably be few takers...
...will probably learn to be a little more dis criminating about what they copy. And despite the machine's debilitating effects on letter-writing, the great god Xeros has kept his part of the bargain: the copy ing machine does make it easier for in formation to be spread. Certainly any thing that greases the path of knowledge is a net gain for society. Besides, with more than 2 million machines in use, it is a little late to stop the revolution. Says Chandler B. Grannis, editor-at-large of Publisher's Weekly: "Copying machines exist. They will...