Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapidity with which the second attack on Ford followed the first raised the specter of a contagious spread of the assassin's disease. These attempts were particularly irrational, since they were aimed at one of the nation's least provocative and most amiable Presidents. Indeed, beyond the usual run of crank letters and threatening calls against any President, more serious attempts did seem to be proliferating...
...Center Target, Double Bonus and Spinner. But to send a ball rolling over the roll-overs, at the upper right of the machine, is not enough to trigger the features--first, a set of flags associated with the roll-overs must themselves be triggered, by a set of targets spread across the surface of the machine...
...said foundations have "felt the pinch of the tight economy and spread out their payments in reduced amounts...
Expanding on Colby's testimony, Charles Senseney, an engineer for the Defense Department, told the Senators that he had devised dart launchers that were disguised as walking canes and umbrellas. In addition, he developed a device that fitted into a fluorescent bulb and spread a biological poison when the light was turned on. Senseney also participated in a joint test by the CIA and Defense Department of the New York City subway system's vulnerability to a poison-gas attack in either 1966 or 1967. Without the knowledge of New York City officials, the scientists threw containers...
...wildcat strike, a revolt against badly bollixed grievance procedures, spread swiftly. Within 16 days almost all 50,000 soft-coal miners in West Virginia walked off the job. The mine owners went to court, and Federal Judge Kenneth K. Hall slapped the United Mine Workers with a gigantic $500,000 fine, plus $100,000 a day for as long as the strike lasted. Last week, seven working days and $1.2 million later, most of the wildcatters went back to work...