Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weaknesses in the safeguard system, including the obvious flaw of not having a remote-control method of adjusting a stuck valve. But human fallibility apparently was the more alarming shortcoming of what happened at Three Mile Island. Once the original on-site mistakes had been made, the blame spread to the NRC itself. Commission officials privately admit that they were slow to get an emergency crew with the necessary skill and authority to the scene of the disaster. Had the right men been there at the right time, three days before they finally did show up, they might have limited...
...inclination to go inside a mosque; women frequently pray at home. Others perform the required ablutions and pray wherever they happen to be. A tennis pro in white shorts will place his racquet alongside the court at the sports club and say his prayers. An airline steward will spread out a towel in the corridor of a plane to pray. Workers in the fields will remove their boots at noon and kneel on pieces of cardboard. Mahmoud Hassan Sharaf, 76, a Bedouin who lives on the edge of the Sahara, explains the peace he finds in prayer...
...represented for Europe by Muhammad and his followers, Islam appeared out of Arabia in the 7th century and rapidly spread in all directions. For almost a millennium Christian Europe felt itself challenged (as indeed it was) by this last monotheistic religion, which claimed to complete its two predecessors. Perplexingly grand and "Oriental," incorporating elements of Judeo-Christianity, Islam never fully submitted to the West's power. Its various states and empires always provided the West with formidable political and cultural contestants-and with opportunities to affirm a "superior" Occidental identity. Thus, for the West, to understand Islam has meant...
...scenario was to present this weakling coalition to the senate, get a no-confidence vote that would lead to the dissolution of parliament and then to preside over elections. Italian politics being what they are, the elaborate strategy almost backfired. As the senate session got under way, word spread that members of the right-wing National Democratic Party would unexpectedly vote to keep Andreotti's government in power. In the end, Andreotti managed to topple his government by only one vote...
...clubhouse a statement to the effect that I, under favorable conditions, had driven a golf ball 489 1/2 yards, no particulars being given. The result was that for a short time, until the facts were known, I enjoyed the undeserved reputation of being a tremendous driver, and my fame spread as far as Boston...