Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underlying pectoral muscle, and lymphoid tissue in the adjacent armpit. This tissue was also sent to pathology. Because it takes three or four days to process the lymphoid tissue for microscopic examination, it will not be known until later this week whether Betty Ford's cancer had already spread to some extent. If it had, her doctors may prescribe radiation, or medication, including hormones, alone or in combination with radiation...
...days ago he thumbed through a copy of a sermon given out in the Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids, by Duncan Littlefair, a pastor who has been genially opposed to Ford's political theology for 30 years. It was a shaft of light in the pardon gloom that spread over Ford's enlightened beginning...
Saturday morning, Byhalia was crawling with sheriff's deputies, Highway Patrolmen, and reporters from Memphis. The atmosphere of the town was a mixture of fear and panic as rumors spread that at least three other merchants had received telephone threats that their stores would be fire-bombed. The board of aldermen met in special session throughout the afternoon, and decided to deputize several local residents to assist county and state police in patrolling the town that night. After the meeting, a reporter asked the mayor whether any black residents would be deputized. He replied, "You can't get a Negro...
...stands now, has reached a stalemate. The blacks--strongly motivated and tightly organized--seem fully prepared to continue the boycott indefinitely if necessary. They may, in fact, attempt to broaden their demands and expand the boycott to neighboring Marshall County towns in an effort to push for wide-spread reforms...
...since April, when Alice Moore, a member of the Kanawha County school board, objected to many books chosen for the fall term by the teachers' Textbook Selection Committee. Then the Rev. Marvin Horan of the Leewood Freewill Baptist Church took up the crusade, and opposition to the books spread among the county's strict fundamentalists. They took exception, among other things, to Sigmund Freud's Character and Anal Eroticism, selections by Pulitzer-prizewinning Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Authors Dick Gregory and Eldridge Cleaver, and a profile of Poet Allen Ginsberg featuring a description of a prostitute...