Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first banks with all-glass walls and an atrium-like interior. The town fathers soon followed Miller's cue, recruiting famous architects to design eleven stunning new schools, including an octagonal brick, glass and wood edifice by Chicago's Harry Weese. As the architectural contagion spread through Columbus, Saarinen fils wrought a hexagonal house of worship for the North Christian Church, which he topped with a soaring spire that is affectionately called "the oil can." In a friendly ecclesiastical rivalry, the First Baptist Church then got Weese to concoct a striking, almost medieval-looking church, with a steeply...
...spokesman for the Society said yesterday the five Santa-monks in the Boston area collect money for the publication of books which "will spread Krishna consciousness throughout the world...
...much. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims that the anger of businessmen over taxes this autumn is the highest in years. Pollster Louis Harris has placed the national ire at a level he defines as "public outrage." Tax experts believe that there could be a spread of local tax revolts, which temporarily closed schools in Ohio and Oregon. They also fear a rise in "bartering." An accountant may do the books of a dentist, who then tends the bookkeeper's teeth. No money changes hands. No tax is paid...
...corporate shift from the older industrial cities of the Northeast to the Sunbelt has spread employment more evenly around the country. White migration from South to North has slowed to a trickle, and black migration has stopped entirely: since 1970 as many blacks have moved to the South as from the South...
...biblical Garden of Eden, eventually reach the open sea and either sail to India or East Africa, or sink-whichever comes first. His goal: to prove that the Sumerians-who established the earliest known civilization in what is today Iraq-could have used the route for trade and to spread their civilization as far away as India...