Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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University officials predicted on Sunday the ban would last at least another week. Officials then said they believed the infection could spread from dining hall to dining hall by infected students handling food at the salad bars...
...rival Sun hastened to keep, um, abreast. The day before the Star appeared, the Sun spread) its usual page 3 lovely across a centerfold and promised more to come. Next day the Sun put an unclad cupcake on page 1 (MY LOVE FOR SEX-CHANGE SAILOR, BY NUDE ROSIE) and, on the accustomed page 3, displayed not one but two topless twinkies...
...loose-knit, often warring group of tribes speaking different dialects of a common language, the Celts occupied a territory that spread from Ireland to the edges of the Black Sea. Although they were avid hunters, they set a standard of orderly farming and cattle raising that has left its impact on European agriculture to this day. They were also expert ironsmiths who fabricated plowshares, scythes and even a primitive reaper two millenniums before Cyrus McCormick. They cut roads through the forests, sometimes paved them with timber and stone and rumbled over them in carriages that had wheels rimmed with iron...
Though banks in most states are still not authorized to offer NOW accounts, they will spread to the New York State market soon, as a result of an amendment that was unexpectedly passed in the hectic last days of the 95th Congress. Consequently, Citibank and Chase Manhattan have scrapped plans to offer PATS in favor of NOWs, and Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Hanover, which introduced PATS last week, plan to switch soon. Says Robert Lipp, head of Chemical Bank's metropolitan division: "NOWS are less confusing and cleaner. They are clearly...
They had glamorous names like the Miracle Mile, Fashion Island and Greenacres. Away from decaying downtowns, offering ample parking space, often lined with shaded walkways, they were gleaming oases of retail chic among the growing, monotonous tracts of ranches and split-levels that spread out from the nation's cities after World War II. Now, more than a generation after the first sprawling shopping centers began sprouting up in suburbia, these great concrete meccas of merchandising are coming under increasing attack...