Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rampant spread of Christianity is the best news we've read in years, and it gives us renewed hope for the future of our great nation...
...halfway up the curving northwest driveway. On winter nights its 105-ft.-tall crown framed the floodlighted White House portico, its graceful branches seeming to cradle the mansion. In summer it rustled softly and spread soothing shade across the lawn. Old 75's trunk was 8 ft. thick at the base. It was the most solid citizen of the front acres. Teddy Roosevelt's children played around it. Mourners leaned on it when they brought John Kennedy's body back to the White House. The televi sion journalists knew a friend when they saw one: John Chancellor...
Before the Dutch elm disease struck in 1930, there were 77 million elms in U.S. cities and towns. Now there are 34 million and the disease has spread to 41 states. The Federal Government will spend about $4 million to seek a cure and control the disease this year. How feeble that is. We pay about $6 million a year for special limousine and airplane service for Washington's Government bigwigs. The Dutch elm disease has denuded whole communities, devastated suburbs, cost billions in neighborhood devaluation and incalculable aesthetic loss that some experts say has markedly altered home environments...
President Carter has taken a personal interest in the vast U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which is made up of 2,141 Micronesian islands spread over an area as large as the U.S. itself. He has declared that the 115,000 people of the area, administered by Washington as a "strategic trust," should have the right of self-determination. Talks toward that end between U.S. officials and island representatives have been going on for six years, but now the full prestige of the Oval...
Some 90% of the prostatic cancers now discovered are diagnosed only after the malignancy has spread beyond the prostate gland. But concludes a New England Journal editorial, "The clear indication is that mass screening on the basis of a blood test alone can reverse this gloomy experience...