Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress challenged his policies on Turkey and the Soviet Union, then two weeks ago no fewer than 76 Senators signed a letter advocating aid for Israel (TIME, June 2). Arab officials see this as evidence of erosion in Kissinger's domestic position, and they fear that it may spread to the Middle East problem...
This did little to pacify General Saraiva de Carvalho, who insisted that Soares' social democratic friends in the rest of Europe were simply a "cover for international capitalism," and that "the socialism we are constructing in Portugal could spread like wildfire." The appreciative Communists staged a massive street demonstration in support of the M.F.A. But at midweek, Saraiva de Carvalho's forces cracked down not on Soares' Socialists but on the Maoist M.R.P.P. (Movement for the Reorganization of the Party of the Proletariat). In Lisbon, Coimbra and other cities, the police arrested more than 350 members...
...debts. In Buffalo, where the jobless rate has reached 14.5%, a large savings bank reports that 150 to 200 rebate checks are being deposited each day. Such activity does not necessarily hurt the economy. Checks that are saved and used to buy consumer goods later will help spread the economic stimulus over a longer period of time; those that are banked indefinitely increase the supply of credit available to loan-seeking consumers and businessmen...
...Utah flats spread out against the lights of saltworks. Salt Lake City came all too quickly, and the bus left us off on the outskirts of town. Bill got a ride from a Volkswagon with only one free seat, and I was stuck for a long time up on a mountain. Snow fell for about an hour and I tried to light a fire under a bridge, but it didn't catch solid enough. A cowboy picked me up and left me at some cowboy exit: I was alone for too long. I scratched out an SOS sign, and after...
...ocean. And they're always beautiful. At sunrise on the ship's last morning in Luanda, the water in the bay shimmered like smooth aluminum foil watercolored pink and orange. But the source of the shimmer was soon painfully evident: an oil film, produced by the anchored ships, spread over the entire...