Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians, claims Haldeman, were considering a "surgical" nuclear strike against the Chinese, designed to knock out new nuclear plants. But U.S. officials feared, among other things, that the Russians had only crude bombs with a radioactive fallout that might kill "every man, woman and child in Japan" and spread death "across Korea and Pacific islands where more than 250,000 American troops were stationed...
...York offices. One of the publishers who signed and saw was Australian Rupert Murdoch; after an unauthorized detail from the book appeared in his New York Post and New York magazine two weeks ago, the syndicate threatened legal action and the disclosures stopped. Meanwhile, a false story spread that the book was being typeset in Kingsport, Tenn...
...these deductions are based on the theory of biorhythm, the fast-growing pseudoscience that is more fun than astrology and not as messy as reading chicken entrails. Biorhythm is now a multimillion-dollar-a-year business, serving more than a million believers in the U.S. The word is spread in books, newsletters, a syndicated column and shopping-mall computers that churn out daily charts for 50?. There is a biorhythm service predicting the results of professional football games ($99 a season), and several dozen companies supply computerized charts and such biorhythm hardware as calculator watches ($169) and a Biocom desk...
...constantly exploding strings of firecrackers that accompany the lion. Combined with the drums and cymbals of the martial arts music, the noise of the fireworks drives away evil spirits. Also, the firecrackers have a red and green paper wrapping--the red for happiness and the green for longevity. They spread little bits of these virtues throughout the streets when they explode...
...substantial immunity. As a result, few if any of the academies' faculty members were among the victims. "It's one of the advantages of being middle-aged," said Dr. Richard S. Foster, the air academy's chief medical officer. How fast this new/old flu will spread among the population at large, however, is unpredictable. It could go on a nationwide rampage within the remaining weeks of winter, or spread slowly, person to person, until next fall's flu season...