Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thousands of ordinary New Yorkers, the biggest problem afoot has been not fiscal but fecal. Unlike New York City's money troubles, the spread of dog excrement on the streets and parks long seemed insoluble and irreversible. Last week, after years of fruitless public clamor for an ordinance to ban canine littering, a state law went into effect that would levy a $25 fine on dog owners who let their pets defecate in any public area without cleaning up the act; the law applies to cities of more than 400,000. In New York City, 2,500 municipal workers...
...beer); the women figured on a $2,000 profit for the church. Outside Iowa Falls (pop. 6,454), Robert Eddy and pals set up a keg of suds in his van with a sign proclaiming FREE BEER. At Varina (pop. 140), where the Lions Club put on a spread (ham sandwiches, apples, homemade cookies, hot dogs) outside the elementary school, members thoughtfully spiked rolls of toilet paper on fence posts bordering the usefully protective 8-ft.-tall rows of corn. Night after night from the instant campgrounds across Iowa arose a bizarre melange of aromas: marijuana, freshly baked cookies, barbecues...
Down in the lobby, Kim Gillette, 25, another member of the tiny female contingent, recounted a fantasy game she had just left. "The plants had a death spread on them. But I was killed just before that." The game, Gamma World, is a futuristic (postnuclear holocaust) contest in which participants adopt the characteristics and hostilities of humans and aliens. "It's a lot more exciting than Monopoly," the player explained brightly. "No dragon's ever going to jump on you in Monopoly...
...cajoling by his fellow summiteers, President Carter eased his stand against the export of nuclear fuel. He and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau agreed that their countries would be "reliable suppliers" of enriched uranium to the Western Europeans and Japanese, provided that those nations impose stricter safeguards against the spread of atomic weapons; they said they would...
...poor, then take from the poor. Just after World War II this was not difficult. Argentina was fat with hard foreign currency from its exports of wheat and beef. While Juan donated the machismo, Eva provided the cunning and humorless drive. Largely under her direction, the wealth was spread...