Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public shock at the series spread, Lugar defensively pointed out the difference between an anonymous tipster and a grand-jury witness. He said citizens had sometimes brought him charges similar to those running in the Star. "When I've asked them to testify under oath before the Marion County grand jury," he complained, "many disappear." But Lugar's problem did not. Questions about police corruption began popping up at speeches given well outside Indianapolis, and Lugar decided to deal with the issue at home. He formed a seven-man committee to study the police department, began interviewing some...
...other dissatisfied Ethiopians. In early March a general strike paralyzed Ethiopia's cities for four days and cut the country off from the outside world. The international airports in Addis Ababa and Asmara were shut down and the Red Sea ports were closed. Food and fuel shortages spread as truck drivers stopped working. So determined were the striking workers to win government acceptance of their demands that the negotiating committee refused to meet with the Emperor himself, an unprecedented snub...
Raven locks spread on garbage...
...dancing. (Favorite songs for 1939 included "Deep in a Dream," "Wishing," and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was.") Meanwhile, Time magazine records the fact that a Harvard freshman, one Lothrop Witlington of Holworthy Hall, initiated the radically inane practice of goldfish swallowing, a fad which then spread to other universities...
...jail and expelled from public schools. "They ought to have respect for other people," he said. Streaker Mark Bruno, at Tennessee Tech University, was fined $50 and sentenced to five weekends in the city jail. Other streaking arrests occurred in Memphis, Knoxville, Orono, Me., and Athens, Ga. As streaking spread, inevitably there were tragedies.A motorcycle streaker in Oklahoma died in a collision; one on foot was killed trying to cross the Dallas-Fort Worth turnpike...