Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final official judgment on the impeachment of Richard Nixon was spread massively on the public record last week in a 528-page report by the House Judiciary Committee. Supported by 200 pages of factual detail on Nixon's Watergate-related actions as President, the committee unanimously recommended that he should have been impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate for obstructing justice in trying to cover up the true origins of the 1972 wiretap and burglary of Democratic national headquarters. Although Nixon's resignation has rendered the matter moot, the full House accepted the report...
...mother of a girl who had her ear lobes pierced in a Seattle jewelry store complained that the jeweler had used soiled instruments. A team of disease detectives headed by Dr. Carl J. Johnson investigated, fearing that ear piercing - like tattooing and mainlining heroin - might spread hepatitis. The jeweler said that he soaked his needles in 70% alcohol, but Johnson pointed out that this treatment does not kill the stubborn hepatitis virus. The team tracked down 48 young women who had had hitherto unexplained viral hepatitis and found that seven had recently had their ears pierced. Not only jewelers...
...wind up with them? The six senior advisors of the Yard spent July deciding where and with whom to put you. All rooming applications are spread on the floor of the freshman dean's office and the advisors proceed to pair compatible freshmen...
Thus, for example, to the proposition that "the American way of life is superior to that of any other country," 87% of conservatives but only 36% of nonconservatives assented, a divergence of 51 points. The other four tenets, in order of the degree of spread, are: 1) conviction that people have become too selfish and self-centered, putting their own interests ahead of their families and the country, 2) strong support for reinstituting the death penalty, 3) commitment to organized religion, and 4) belief that American Communism represents a great danger to the country...
...Cleveland Plain Dealer lamented: "There was no humility, no admission of the real abuse of power spread on the record these past weeks." Columnist Garry Wills agreed. During the speech, he reflected, "I thought of all the flunkies who have gone to jail, who have had their careers ruined-never a mention of them. He's a guy who sent all his troops out to be shot before he finally dragged out himself...