Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saying to the delegates that he did not mind because Senator Thomas Francis Eagleton of Missouri was so clearly a superior alternative to Spiro Agnew. Only moments before, Eagleton had stood on the podium with his running mate, arms raised in triumph, a partly dazed but wholly rapturous grin spread across his boyish, Jack Lemmony face...
...squads of police watched silently from a distance, hundreds of angry British dockworkers and sympathizers from other unions converged on London's hulking Pentonville Prison. The demonstrators paraded their banners like so many regimental flags. FREE THE FIVE, SPREAD THE STRIKE, commanded one. Others called for SOLIDARITY WITH THE DOCKERS! or simply jeered, HITLER 1933, HEATH...
...sympathy strikes spread rapidly, the dockers warmed to their unaccustomed role as labor heroes. "I cannot understand why I was not taken along to prison with the others," complained Eddie Hedges, a picketer who was arrested but later released by the court. "I've done just as much as them in the picket line." By midweek, passions were cooled, at least temporarily, when the Five were released on the recommendation of the official solicitor, an obscure but supposedly independent official who acts as a kind of legal ombudsman for impecunious Britons...
...Lithuania's second largest city, and set fire to a gallon of gasoline he had poured on himself. On the day of Kalanta's burial, thousands of young mourners flooded the streets of Kaunas shouting "Freedom for Lithuania!" A young girl lay down in the street and spread her arms in the form of a cross. When the local police manhandled her, the rioting started. Hundreds counterattacked with fists, sticks and stones. When the police proved unable to quell the demonstrators, tough riot-control troops were called in. The angry young people reportedly killed a policeman, stoned...
...beginning another wide swing from the company's home base. This September he expects to sign leases to open three stores in Tokyo that will carry the Joseph Magnin name. With two local partners, the Daiei retailing chain and the C. Itoh trading company, Walker hopes to spread into other Japanese cities. He believes that Japanese young women want Western fashions and that "they have a tremendous amount of disposable income because they sensibly live at home when they start working instead of renting expensive apartments...