Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americanism. Cattlemen from Argentina, Nicaragua and Costa Rica flock to the fair to buy prime breeding cattle. They are treated like visiting royalty, right down to a barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans take the 5,000-acre spread in stride, their home-grown counterparts are visibly awed. Drawls one weathered wrangler: "Ole Lamar got so much money, he coulda greased Pontius Pilate's palm and got Jesus Christ off with three weeks on the county correction farm...
Since the time of Baha'u'llah, the Baha'i Faith has spread over the globe. In the United States, the name of Baha'u'llah was first mentioned in Chicago in 1893. The first Baha'i group was formed there in 1894. Today the national center is in Wilmette, Illinois; there stands the only American Baha'i House of Worship, dedicated to the oneness of mankind, and open...
Although the San Rafael incident failed to free George Jackson and the other Soledad Brothers, it did rivet national attention on their case and on George Jackson as a man. Through this attention Jackson's reputation among prisoners spread through the joints across the country...
...news spread quickly through the crowd in Will Rogers Park. Most seemed stunned by it; a few moved in a deeply intimate way. But the celebration continued. It was late on an August Saturday afternoon in Watts, and the news was that George Jackson was dead...
...speculation-and dismay-over a Byrd nomination spread, however, White House sources began insisting that he was not a serious candidate. Yet his name appeared on the list of potential appointees submitted to the American Bar Association last week. The others...