Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word began to spread, Watts?--look at the economy. Watergate?--look at the economy. Huge defense budgets nobody wants?--look at the economy...
...National Council of Churches, the Campfire Girls and "thousands of libraries, churches, fraternal clubs, schools, civic associations, etc.," according to a recent press release. Full-fledged commissions have been set up in 21 states and where those don't exist yet there are Committees of Correspondence to spread the word about the economy and the founding fathers...
Country Journal was brought quivering and wobbly into the world one year ago this month by Ketchum, 58, and William S. Blair, 53, former publisher of Harper's magazine, who now has a 250-acre spread of his own in Guilford, Vt. (pop. 1,108). When the two reformed Manhattanites first met in Vermont in 1972, each found that the other was thinking of starting a monthly to capitalize on the growing city interest in rural life. After raising $170,000 from friends and scraping up $35,000 of their own, they founded Country Journal...
However, the bread-and-butter protests at Brown have started to spread to other colleges. Budget-related strikes were being planned this week at Princeton and UMass, and there was a small demonstration in the Yard Wednesday featuring what President Bok believed was his first burning-in-effigy...
...people like Rusk ran their government, people who just trusted in it because they loved their country and weren't very interested in politics were likely to find themselves traveling in strange, hostile, bewildering countries, like Kafka's explorer. As the orphans poured in, and word began to spread that even the Saigon government's own troops might turn against withdrawing American troops, 'populist' papers like The Chicago Tribune began to thunder about incomprehensible Vietnamese ingratitude...