Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shooting apparently started near a refugee camp between the city and the airport. By midmorning it had spread to other camps around Beirut and to various sections of the city itself. Nada Khaled Yashruti, 33, the widow of a former Al-Fatah leader, was fatally riddled with twelve bullets as she entered her home in the well-to-do district of Raouche. She had just come from trying to help negotiate a cease-fire with Lebanon's President Suleiman Franjieh. A Lebanese newsman was killed when soldiers raked the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in a nearby area...
...neutral ground at the Makassed Hospital, they worked out a cease-fire agreement under which the army hostages were released. Before dawn, however, heavy firing broke out anew at a Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, across St. George's Bay. Soon sporadic shooting resumed in other areas and spread well beyond Beirut...
...have given my life to St. Thomas, and labor to spread his doctrine. For I, too, want intelligence to be taken from the Devil and returned to God." So wrote Philosopher Jacques Maritain to Poet Jean Cocteau 47 years ago. And when Maritain died on April 28, at the age of 90, no modern Roman Catholic had done more than this French layman to make the mind a subtly flashing sword in the defense of faith...
...sciences and subdivisions of philosophy in the pursuit of reality. Thomism became a live intellectual option, not merely in France but for two generations of Catholic students all over the world. It also became fashionable with such secular thinkers as Mortimer Adler of the University of Chicago, who helped spread Thomistic influences in America...
...Manhattan gynecologist. "That way I don't have to send a bottle of booze or something." Others are taking out policies to cover doctors' bills and demanding that those who treat them accept at least whatever the insurance companies allow. But their rebellion is not likely to spread very far. The majority of doctors seem more than willing to abide by the ancient advice of Hippocrates...