Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), said reporting by The Globe and The Boston Herald American of the burning death of Evelyn Wagler Tuesday night and the stabbling death of Louis Barba on Thursday "made it look like blacks were on the rampage" and contributed to the spread of anti-black hysteria throughout the city...
...four-man ruling junta, at a press conference last week. It was not true, Leigh insisted, that he and his fellow generals were fascists, as their enemies had charged. Instead, he claimed, the junta was merely taking temporary measures to rid the country of the Marxist disease spread by the late President Salvador Allende Gossens. The military's goal was to achieve "reconstruction" and "normalcy." Once these were reached, said Leigh, the generals would return to barracks...
...been paralyzed by a cholera epidemic that killed 16 people in a month and hospitalized 822 more. As the epidemic itself waned, misfortune has overwhelmed the city. First the lucrative tourist trade dried up. Then the port was all but quarantined. Fishmongers who sold the sewage-contaminated mussels that spread the infection were virtually ostracized; their livelihood was ruined as police frogmen systematically uprooted the mussel beds. Afraid of contagion, Neapolitans, the most gregarious people in Italy, began to avoid one another, literally like the plague. In the birthplace of the pizza, even mozzarella cheese became an object of suspicion...
...been observed about once every two weeks, followed by periods of radio interference on earth. The astronauts also made observations of so-called solar bright points; although the points were previously thought to be concentrated in the sun's active equatorial belts, they are apparently spread measles-like over the entire solar surface...
...move marks the spread of a new strategy by which multinational companies hope to counter the threat of expropriation: the international legal blockade. Kennecott Copper Corp. had some success with the approach last fall, after the Chilean government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens had expropriated its huge El Teniente mine without compensation. Kennecott got courts in France, Italy, Germany and Sweden to hold up payments by European purchasers for four separate shipments of copper from El Teniente, contending that the copper was in effect stolen property. The shutoff of European markets for the copper probably helped to build economic...