Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, slick spy thriller had been written to order by Russia's famed detective novelist, Julian Semyonov-the Soviet Ian Fleming. Spread over five columns of Izvestiya last week, it had some of the suspense but none of the humor of a James Bond story. The tale began as Martha Peterson, 32, a tall, blonde vice consul in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, drove her car to a deserted street in the Soviet capital. Quickly changing from a white dress to a black outfit that would meld into the shadows, she boarded in rapid succession a bus, a streetcar...
...toward mountainous country in northern Ethiopia, where it would be much harder to locate and attack them with insecticides. The desert locust breeds every six weeks. If the swarms were not soon brought under control, Roy warned, their offspring could create an even more devastating plague as they spread through Africa, the Middle East and even the Indian subcontinent...
...spread a web of terror...
...admits that it is hard to notice the difference. Says Education Commissioner Ernest Boyer: "The problem is that you have five people in one town who are affected and 50 in another, and they never get together to celebrate. It's not noticeable because it's so spread...
...central purpose of this grant supporting scholarly work that focuses on women's experience," President Horner said yesterday, "is to quicken the spread of new perspectives and new knowledge by aiding their inclusion into college and university curricula...