Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, the President's selections were obvious enough (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and the like). They spread across a movie infantry-platoon ethnic spectrum. As New York Times Columnist Red Smith noted, Nixon "saluted young and old, white and black, Latin and Nordic, lefthander and righthander, Catholic and WASP, Jew and American Indian." No one would be offended, except perhaps a handful of Liechtensteiner and Tibetan diamond buffs...
Gunbattles spread across Belfast and Londonderry and 10 persons died in the fighting...
...North West Side Austin police district. Nine policemen -including two lieutenants and a sergeant-and two former policemen were indicted. Four have been convicted. Fifteen additional policemen were suspended by Conlisk after they refused to talk to the grand jury about the shakedown operation. The scheme may have spread to other areas of the city; one high-ranking policeman quit his job when federal probers started looking into possible extortion by policemen in the Near North Side nightclub district...
...Smithsonian agreement. For months, serious private discussion in Europe has focused on the pound as the weakest link in the system. There have been widespread predictions that the pound would have to be devalued by the time Britain joined the Common Market on Jan. 1. Such talk spread gasoline on the floor of world currency markets, and Labor's Healey tossed a lighted match on it with his devaluation forecast...
Bumptious Phase. His colleagues at some of the regional theaters are not entirely pleased with his notion and fear his imperialist instincts. "I think Joe is in a very bumptious phase," responds Zelda Fichandler, producing director of the Arena Stage in Washington. "He just wants to spread that which he creates around. He wants to cover more of God's green earth, and he needs green money to do it." She tartly adds: "It is only lately that he is in the new play department. He has done European things at the Public Theater...