Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largely middle-class Cuban refugees have fled their Communist-dominated island home for the U.S. since Fidel Castro took power. Of these, 430,000 have settled in southern Florida's Dade County, where they were initially welcomed with sympathy and federal relocation grants. The Cubans have long since spread out from Little Havana. Neighboring Hialeah (pop. 133,000) is 65% Latin, and the Cubans have moved on to such well-tended suburbs as Coral Gables, Kendall and Westchester. They have prospered mightily, prompting Cuban Writer José Sanchez-Boudy to boast with only slight hyperbole: "We have been...
...statistics of destruction were appalling. More than 35,000 houses were demolished in the shelling, which soon spread from the city to the hills north of Beirut. The U.S. Embassy was hit by shells, and two Marine guards were wounded. Some two-thirds of the 600,000 Christian residents fled, leaving behind thousands of others cowering in the basements of wrecked buildings without food, water, electricity or communications with the outside world. Unable to minister to the wounded, hospitals turned into morgues, reeking with the stench of decomposing bodies. Said a shaken President Elias Sarkis, in a terse summation...
...that no-smoking areas are now defined. In the cheaper section, seats will usually all be filled, drink and food service will be last and the menu may be more limited. Whatever empty seats there are will all be in the full-fare section so that passengers there can spread out their possessions or stretch out for a nap. On transatlantic flights full-fare passengers will also get an unlimited number of free drinks, as well as free movie headsets. Other airlines are courting these bread-and-butter customers in different ways. Some are trying to attract more of them...
WELCOME BACK! shouted the Post's 110-point Page One headline, over a picture spread of the New York Yankees stepping off a plane after their 10-4 defeat by Kansas City in the second game of the American League pennant playoffs. Newspaper-starved New Yorkers, who had subsisted on a diet of generally skimpy interim strike papers, crowded around subway kiosks and street-corner newsstands to snatch up copies of the city's first real-life newspaper since Aug. 9. The first edition of 128 pages-twice as big as usual-was fat with pre-Columbus...
...redemptive kind, and in explicable happiness can be every bit as astonishing as inexplicable misery. Cheever has never tried more or less than to get this sense of mystery down. At the end of one story, he wonders how mere fiction could "hope to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream." As consistently as any of his contemporaries, Cheever has done just that...