Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time seemed right to prove the faithless wrong, and a drive to widen the Center's narrow confines took over at the Loeb. A spirit of enthusiasm took hold and began to spread to include not only the rest of the University, but also inspired plans to branch out into the Cambridge community as well...
...question was, as Colin put it, "Do you believe in the Harvard Square environment and is Harvard part of it?" The need has long been felt for a bond between college-based artists and community-oriented groups. Such new and exciting contacts would demand breathing space and room to spread to fabulous extremes if need be--"To use the streets, you have to have the support and interest of the people in them," Colin realized. Wouldn't the merchants and community groups around the Square be more than he and his co-workers could handle? They were up to their...
...Vietnamese have committed no more than half of their 100,000 troops in the South to battle, and they have yet to challenge ARVN where it is weakest, in the Central Highlands. For their part, the South Vietnamese have virtually no reserves to call on should the Communist drive spread to another front...
...three hours of evening prime-time programming (leaving 550 local stations across the country to fill the other half-hour with programming of their own). The FCC also barred the networks from acquiring financial interests in outside programs being produced for their use. Last week, in a move that spread consternation and confusion, the Justice Department in effect put the industry on notice that it had not seen anything...
...delivery of such gag lines is like a rasp drawn gently across the funnybone. With timing that would take an atomic clock to measure, he teases a laugh like a yo-yo on the end of a string. A figure of grizzled aplomb, he can get up from a spread of ham hocks and pinto beans, then strut through a junky living room as if he were Louis XIV in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...