Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food supply were evenly divided among the planet's inhabitants, hunger might be curbed for several decades. But it is not likely that wealthy nations will reduce their living standards to help the L.D.C.s. For example, Americans will not eagerly reduce the 1.3 million tons of fertilizer they spread each year on lawns, golf courses and cemeteries; that amount would produce enough extra grain in the L.D.C.s to feed about 65 million people...
...Marden, 36, are almost too simple: they are groups of canvases butted together in diptychs or triptychs, each surface painted one uniform color-usually a drab, dense gray. It seems an inert formula but it is not, largely because of what Marden learned from Jasper Johns-how to spread a skin of oil and wax over the surface of a canvas with such subtlety that, though monochrome, it is full of half-suppressed or latent incidents. The paintings do become objects of contemplation, like landscapes; but their austerity is so low-keyed as to risk blandness...
...word had spread that two TV networks had predicted Dukakis the winner, and the staff had to face defeat...
Their deaths will result not simply from the growth of the cancer in the breast, but from the invasion of other parts of the body by the malignant cells. Untreated breast tumors can metastasize, or spread, rapidly-invading the lungs, skeleton, liver or brain. The spreading cancer can also kill by interfering with the production of substances the body needs for normal functioning, thus weakening the victim and leaving her unable to resist infectious disease...
...surgery is essential, there are those who insist that complete amputation is not necessary. Dr. Vera Peters of Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital advocates a simple procedure called "lumpectomy," in which only the cancerous lump is removed. She says her research shows that in cancers that have not spread to the lymph nodes, lumpectomy is just as effective as the more radical operations and far less damaging psychologically. (The problem is how to determine that the lymph nodes are uninvolved; most doctors feel that the only sure way to tell is to remove the nodes and study them under...