Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a grotesque, hook-shaped inkblot, the oil spread menacingly across the water. Along a single stretch of Brittany beach, 25 species of dead fish were found. Vast beds of seaweed, which are harvested to make Pharmaceuticals and fertilizer, were destroyed. Thousands of oil-tarred birds lay dead or dying. The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey were threatened, as were the sands around the spectacular monastery at Mont-St.-Michel. Driven by gale winds, the oil may despoil more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) of France's ruggedly beautiful Brittany coast, and imperil the Normandy beaches farther...
...because their birth rate is much higher than that of the 3.6 million Jews. Many more live in neighboring states such as Jordan and Lebanon, the poorest among them in refugee camps that were first established in the late 1940s. Other Palestinians, many of them well-to-do, are spread from Libya to the Persian Gulf. There are also an estimated 50,000 living in Europe and an additional 60,000 in the U.S., where they have recently become more vocal defending their cause against a much larger body of American Jews and resident Israelis...
Kepler predicted the spread of feminist consciousness across denominational lines...
...Newsweek): You can't. It's our exclusive. We've got a commitment. We're sinking more than $125,000 into it. We've increased our price 25? on the newsstands. We've gone to all this secrecy so that we can spread it out over two issues...
...promote Reines' philosophy, so far has enlisted only 75 rabbis and ten synagogues. Congregation Or Ami in Richmond, Va., the first synagogue formed to practice polydoxy, began six years ago with six families and now has 100, many previously unaffiliated with any synagogue. The movement has also spread overseas. Rabbi Anthony Holz, who recently returned from a congregation in Pretoria, South Africa, summarizes his polydox outlook: "Fifty percent of what we know is wrong, and we can never know which fifty percent...