Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...herd of 2,000 calves and cows for lack of both water and forage or enough money to buy feed grain. He normally rotates livestock from one pasture to another as grass is consumed, but this year none of the grazing land on his 20,000-acre Lake County spread is adequate. To get water to his cattle (each cow needs about 15 gal. a day), Lynch has it hauled in from 50 to 100 miles away...
...Luckies, Bell, Jesus Christ you got to have some Luckies. Goddam, didn't anybody go out and buy Luckies last night? Waht did you do, anyway?" I made a tremendous drug deal, you dumb bastard, Bell thought contentedly behind the inscrutable smile, and Reed disdainfully, with a sneer that spread across his face like jam on a child's that belied Merle Haggard, proletarian boots, and construction worker's cigarettes, picked a butt out of an ashtray overflowing with them. He lit it, burnt his nose, and Bell began to laugh, because it took all of three seconds...
Sails move continuously through Ted Hood's sail loft, from cutting and sewing rooms upstairs to finishing and storage rooms below. Similar patterns repeatedly form on the large wooden floors as workers unfold and spread out the sails to measure, cut and apply serial numbers to them. Designed in part by computers, the sails are made from special cloth manufactured by the Hood company in Marblehead and Fall River. This tightly woven cloth maintains sails' shapes without the customary use of resin which can disintegrate under stress and weathering...
Hiatt said that the kind of collaboration between physicians and other scholars, such as statisticians that occurred in the writing of the report is needed to spread analytic techniques throughout the profession...
...became president of Manhattan's famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center four years ago. Last week his sardonic words rang truer still. After five years of exhaustive studies with mice, researchers at his world-renowned institute concluded that in spite of early indications it might control the spread of tumors, the controversial drug Laetrile showed no anticancer properties. Yet even while they were strengthening the scientific case against the apricot-pit extract, also known as vitamin B17, Laetrile's supporters were predicting that the drug - now used illicitly by tens of thousands of cancer patients - would soon...