Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next ride was a converted school bus, complete with pot-bellied stove and deluxe double - bed spread out in back. The ceiling was covered with colored patches of rugs. At one point the driver reach up and pulled one of the patches down to reveal a stash, then passed some joints around. I felt good in the bus; but I didn't smoke any. I was drowsy and it reminded me of home, and home seemed further away than when I started out. Even though the eucalyptus smelled so good, I would be home soon...
Hardly a night passes without some clash in Luanda's muceques (slums) between the F.N.L.A. and the M.P.L.A. Last week the trouble spread to Nova Lisboa, Angola's second biggest city, where local sources reported that 30 civilians had been killed in clashes. "Mortar, machine guns, automatic pistols, rifles, hand grenades. Suddenly all the muceques are aflame," says De Carvalho. "Nobody can get in, nobody dares go out. It's war, but they're not fighting it out in the bush like they used to." So far the U.N.I.T.A. has managed to keep out of most...
...students who invented the game in a parking lot at Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J., six years ago set out to create a simple, inexpensive, low key sport "for the non-athlete." They did just that, then took their creation to college, where they spread it with evangelical enthusiasm...
...knights are charged with being accessories to the murder of the historian who popped up midway in the movie - BBC style - to supply some useless background on the traditions of medieval romance. The intervention of the bobbies also leads to the fine sight of a fully armored knight spread-eagled against the squad car and being patted down for concealed weapons...
...conforms more or less to the city wide ratio of 51% white, 37% black and 12% other minorities. To help achieve that goal, he has ordered 20 schools to close their doors and has created nine new school districts. One of the districts will consist of 22 "magnet" schools spread throughout the city. The magnet schools, open to any Boston children as long as their enrollment conforms to citywide racial ratios, are designed to encourage voluntary desegregation by offering specialized courses that will attract students from other neighborhoods...