Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...belief that women are entitled to truly equal social and professional rights has spread far and deep into the country. Once the doctrine of well-educated middle-class women, often young and single, it has taken hold among working-class women, farm wives, blacks, Puerto Ricans, white "ethnics." The Y.W.C.A. embraces it; so do the Girls Clubs of America and the Junior Leagues. A measure of just how far the idea has come can be seen in the many women who denigrate the militant feminists' style ("too shrill, unfeminine") and then proceed to conduct their own newly independent lives...
...Chicago Tribune argued that "Angola would provide a foothold for the spread of Russian influence in Africa." On the other hand, CBS Newscaster Walter Cronkite felt that Angola could become another Viet Nam and began a series on the U.S. involvement "to try to play our small part in preventing that mistake this time...
...goes without saying that Rome, as the capital of Christianity, was destined to become a thesaurus almost indescribably rich in these cult objects. Money, talent, raw materials and the competitive pride of rival orders abounded there over the long centuries and spread through the churches of the neighboring Papal States. Despite theft and fire and the plunderings of tourists from Alaric the Visigoth to Hitler's Waffen SS, a stupendous amount remains. In this show, more than 500 examples have been assembled by a group of scholars headed by Art Historian Paolo Cercato...
...recall the phrase "Sell the word of God" in the Bible, supposedly the guide for Christians. I thought it was something similar to "Spread the word...
...nation's output of goods and services plunged at an annual rate of 11.4%, the steepest drop in 30 years. Unemployment, which began soaring at the end of 1974, continued bounding up to a peak of 9.2% last May-the highest since before Pearl Harbor. Fear spread that the nation might have started on a downward spiral into depression...