Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike for higher wages spread, stoppages and slowdowns seemed to succeed one another almost at random. The customs inspectors at London's Heathrow Airport returned to duty within 24 hours, but the rail strike that was supposed to last one day dragged on for four. Queen Elizabeth II herself had to rearrange a train trip to Wales (she went by plane instead). Scotland Yard warned travelers: "Do not come into London unless your presence is absolutely essential." In some areas there were already shortages of fruits and vegetables...
...residual cancer cells. But when cancer recurred at the operation site two years ago, and raised reddish, golf-ball-sized lumps on the flat area where her left breast had been, the doctors were stymied. Surgery was out of the question; the lumps were evidence that the cancer had spread too far. So was X-ray treatment. Mrs. Brown (not her real name) had already had so much exposure to X rays that any more could do serious damage to her healthy tissues. Thus, when even anti-cancer drugs failed to halt the spread of the disease, Mrs. Brown turned...
...whatever ticket (How long--O Lord?) to "The King of Hearts." A thoughtful re-review would have been more in order. Is it too much to ask of a Harvard paper--too much, a critical analysis exposing the utter mindlessness of a film experience like that, ready to spread, to be sure, down the East Coast, on the wings of your vaunting its Cambridge reputation...
...attempt to forestall further demonstrations, the government enacted a new law that empowered the army to rescind the draft deferments of any student who boycotted classes. The law only spurred more protests. Strikes and demonstrations spread to the University of Athens and to the Aristotelian University of Salonika to the north. The students have called a temporary truce, but another mass rally is scheduled for this week. If the government does not back down, warns one student leader, "we will come down the streets...
...have organized programs to study acupuncture, the Chinese technique of treating illness and inducing anesthesia by inserting needles at certain points in the body. Politicians, public health officials and hospital administrators are trying to learn more about how the Chinese cope with disease and provide medical care. To help spread the word about Chinese medicine, a group of American and European physicians has decided to publish a journal devoted entirely to the subject. Scheduled to appear twice a year, the American Journal of Chinese Medicine will, according to its editor, Dr. Frederick Kao of the State University of New York...