Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, the practice of leaking is open to abuse. False information can be spread to damage someone's reputation or prejudice his rights to a fair trial. In such cases, however, the offender is the leaker and not the newsman who reports the information in good faith. Says John Flynn, a law professor at the University of Utah: "To get at that person over the dead body of the First Amendment is not a price I want...
...tell me any time in the history of the U.S. that aides in the White House and the President's personal attorney made money available to people to spread lies and libels on candidates of the opposition party...
...Sending anti-Humphrey material from nonexistent "Democrats for Peace" and "Democrats for a Liberal Alternative" organizations to spread the idea that much of the Democratic party was against Humphrey...
Administration officials were quick to emphasize that these steps by no means end the danger of a shortage; they will do nothing to increase the supply of scarce fuels. Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton said the Administration will be satisfied if it can merely "spread the discomfort out and spread it out so thinly that it is not going to have any kind of drastic effect on the economy or the lifestyle" of the public. Whether that goal can be accomplished, Morton added, is "dependent on Old Man Winter and where he strikes, how long he strikes and what...
...country music spread to the northeast and the west coast, it showed an even greater propensity for being co-opted than rock music had. By now, the vast majority of country and western music has gone Glen Campbell--commercial pop with a reference to ol' Ma and Pa thrown in. Merle Haggard is virtually alone in holding on to the original forms...