Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showed Kenny the eggs, the two trays all spread out beside the elastic band and the goo dripping out the sides. He laughed...
...prepared to become a "unity" candidate if the other Gaullists would drop out. His candidacy lasted a mere eight hours. Although Giscard kept a discreet silence, Chaban-in a five-minute talk with Messmer-made clear that he was in the running to stay. Paris politicians later spread rumors that Messmer had threatened to release secret "dossiers" that would compromise Chaban...
...York's half rural, half suburban, and very conservative 26th district. Lying on the northern fringes of New York City, the district is composed of fugitives from the city's turmoil and those who fear it from a distance. Together they have established a conservative bastion to prevent its spread north. In 1970 the district elected a leftwing Democrat, John G. Dow '27, only because his Republican opponent was indicted for income tax evasion towards the end of the campaign. But in 1972, Gilman took advantage of Nixon's solid trouncing of McGovern in the district and retired...
...gift of his pre-presidential papers to the National Archives. His taxmen had awarded him a total tax deduction of $576,000, which was the value set on the papers by Ralph G. Newman, a noted Chicago rare-book dealer and appraiser. Following established tax practice, Nixon had spread out the write-off, using $482,018 of it to offset income from 1969 through 1972; the remaining $93,982 presumably was to be applied to income in 1973. In all, the papers gift enabled him to avoid $235,000 in income taxes...
...student militants. In 1969 it seemed to the Faculty--perhaps for reasons of fear, perhaps for reasons of guilt, but not for reasons of conscientious agreement--that special concessions had to be made to the blacks. President Pusey seemed to recognize this. After the Faculty vote, which received wide-spread attention in the national press, Harvard was criticized for "giving in to the militants." Appearing on Meet the Press, Pusey responded to the criticism by drawing a distinction between giving in to white militants and black militants. Pusey said, "The black student thing is a very special matter... I think...