Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allende told that her husband was in a military hospital, wounded. When she went to see him, she learned that he was actually dead. She told newsmen that he had probably killed himself with a submachine gun presented to him by Cuba's Fidel Castro. But rumors spread that Allende had been shot 13 times−the widow later saw his coffin but never his body−and that he and four aides had been killed in cold blood. The rumors fed the rapidly growing legend of Allende the Marxist martyr...
...unrest spread. Three weeks after the copper strike was settled, the powerful truckers (most of the country's commerce travels by road) went out on strike again. They had first struck in October, complaining about a lack of spare parts and the government's increasing trucking operations. This time they charged that Allende had reneged on agreements made last fall to ease both situations. The new strike cost Chile nearly $6 million a day as food supplies dwindled, fuel vanished and crop shortages loomed because seeds and fertilizer could not be delivered...
Fearing the spread of the disease, health officials in several countries began demanding that travelers returning from Italy show certificates of immunization against cholera. That action apparently is not enough to halt the march of the disease. Scattered cases have already been reported in Sweden, Britain, France and West Germany. The majority of those stricken in Northern European countries have not even been to Italy. Most appeared to have picked up the disease in North Africa...
...Hobbit (1938). He also equipped readers with 157 pages of history, appendixes, indexes, tables of consanguinity, and philologically impeccable notes on all the languages, including Elvish and Sindarin, spoken on Middle-earth. In the years between 1954, when the book came out, and the present, Tolkien saw his readership spread from a handful of literate Anglophiles who savored The Lord of the Rings much as they do Grahame's The Wind in the Willows or T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone, to hundreds of thousands of U.S. college kids who made Frodo a national figure...
Tales of being thrown out on the street with 103 degree fever at 3 a.m. spread quickly. Stories of wicked doctors who sneeringly refuse treatment become more prevalent as colds and stuffed-up noses become more irritating...