Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these sanguine bulletins, Franco's condition was deteriorating. Thursday night, the eleven physicians attending him announced that he had suffered a relapse and "early signs of cardiac insufficiency had appeared." As this news spread, bars and restaurants in Madrid began closing early; a few groups of youths roamed the capital's streets mournfully chanting, "Franco. Franco. Franco...
...also for ideals. Volunteers poured in from around the world-including 3,100 Americans who joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and other units-to fight on the Republican side against Franco. They believed that a Republican victory in the Spanish Civil War was the only way to stop the spread of fascism. Nearly half of the American volunteers died in Spain...
...Indian mystic who founded the Sufi Order in the West (Sufism is the mystical movement within Islam). Pir Vilayat, a well-known guru in the spiritual counterculture, now heads the order, which has practically divorced itself from Islam. The message, one that Pir Vilayat implored his audience to spread, is "the unity of all religions...
Since then, Preusser said, she has "spread out" her interests, and seen the root causes of problems plaguing Cambridge schools. Believing it "foolish" to work through middlemen, Preusser said, she decided to run for the council this year with the endorsement of the Cambridge Convention...
...bring the company any material reward. General Automation, which lost about $4 million in fiscal 1975, v. a $4 million profit in fiscal 1974, has seen the price of its stock plunge dizzily from a 1973 high of 541/2 to 4% this year, and rumors are beginning to spread that the company may be facing a takeover by outsiders...