Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate contamination spread ever more widely as it was revealed that-in response to requests from White House officials-the CIA and the State Department had helped Convicted Wiretapper E. Howard Hunt Jr. carry out covert activities. These involved either the investigation of Ellsberg or the fabrication of cables falsely implicating President John Kennedy in the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem...
Meanwhile, the fighting spread far beyond Beirut. Major battles rocked the port of Tyre, 45 miles to the south, and broke out in stretches inside the northern and eastern borders, where at least 2,000 Palestinian troops crossed into Lebanon from bases in Syria. The Syrian government insisted that it would not send its army into Lebanon, but its sympathies, like those of Libya, were clearly with the fedayeen. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi urged the guerrillas to seize the Beirut airport so that he could send them Libyan fighter planes. Syria closed its border to Lebanon; with the Beirut airport...
Both teams came up with six hits in the game, spread out among four pitchers, two per team. The difference was a throwing error by Minuteman shortstop Ed McMahon that allowed Jim Thomas to score the winning...
...sect operates a network of welfare agencies in India and has spread to more than 30 foreign lands, including a vocal U.S. branch based in Wichita, Kans. The sect now has at least 2.5 million converts in India alone, many of them recruited among frustrated youths who are educated but jobless...
...Cliffe eight, obviously miffed at the Sprints Committee's decision to seed Princeton first, completely dominated the eights competition in yesterday's regatta on the Charles River Basin After destroying the competition in the morning heats with a very fast 4:08 clocking and a 14-second spread against a blustery 20 m.p.h. headwind, Radcliffe pulled away in the second 500 meters of the finals to win the title by open water...