Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screaming, the crowds pelted them with rocks and bottles. Of the fires, 65 were considered serious, including a store fire in Brooklyn at which 22 firemen were hurt. Another blaze began in a looted factory warehouse in Brooklyn, then leaped across the street to destroy four tenements and finally spread to two other houses. In all, 59 firemen were injured fighting the fires...
...pastureland losses total another $102 million. In Alabama, officials say three-quarters of the corn crop is gone, and certain counties in the Florida panhandle report the destruction of 95% of their corn and hay. The drought has proved a boon for bugs: without rain, insecticides fail to spread beneath the surface crust to the roots...
...give you anything. That disaster aid is a joke, and isn't sufficient to pay for the fertilizer." Nor are farmers looking to fellow Southerner Jimmy Carter to bail them out. "Jimmy's not the type who'd show favoritism," says Jim Warbinton on his spread outside Vienna. "Just because he's from this area, he's not going to roll the money...
...know of subversion abroad in our land...It is subversive for commissions like these to spread such hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their minds on public issues . . . this is the destruction of democracy...
...really good ice cream, or try to. Baileys, at 21 Brattle, is famous for its large, good and expensive cones and sundaes. Belgian Fudge, on Mass Ave across from the Yard, may serve the best ice cream and frozen yogurt in the Square. Although it doesn't have the spread of flavors available at Baskin-Robbins and Brigham's, it has much more interesting ones...