Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, over lunch with a psychologist, I try connecting the phenomenal spread of television in China with the West's greatest contribution to childhood education. "What about Sesame Street?" I ask. "You must be kidding," says the psychologist. "Sesame Street is about individualism, about accepting differences. Don't you get it about Communism...
...When the skies cleared, locals armed with rifles, guns and machetes plundered the ravaged streets of Christiansted and Frederiksted, helping themselves not just to necessities like food and water but also to TV sets, liquor and clothing. As days passed and no outside help came, the looting spread. Thieves browsed through merchandise, trying on sneakers to get the right size. Stores not smashed by the storm were vandalized by hooligans. Lonnie and Elena Scribner, honeymooning on the island, watched as islanders roamed through the debris grabbing whatever they could carry. Gunfire could be heard throughout both cities...
Working with the Soviet embassy in Washington and the Soviet Ministry for Agriculture, the Dulls set up a unique Soviet-American farm-exchange program. They would spend six months on the Ukraina kolkhoz (collective farm), while a Soviet farmer, Viktor Polormarchuk, worked on their spread back in Brookville. (From his letters home, Polormarchuk's wife Valentina reports that her husband is working hard, has lost several pounds and talks about doing some private farming of his own when he returns to the Soviet Union.) "Mikhail Gorbachev's new proposals ((for liberalizing the economy)) fit in exactly with what we think...
Ralph, 60, who customarily wears red-and-blue-checked shirts and blue jeans, drives around the 12,000-acre Ukraina collective farm, which lies just 100 miles from the Rumanian border, as if it were his own 2,000-acre spread in Ohio. He walks the fields, checking the condition of the crops, and drops by smelly cow barns and even smellier pig farms to dispense tips about raising livestock. In the evening Ralph gives lectures and shows American agricultural films. Christine, 54, a petite ex-schoolteacher, likes to engage the farmers and their families in conversation...
Frederic assaulted the Bahamas, Alabama and Mississippi just two weeks after Hurricane David killed 1,200 people in the Dominican Republic, then spread destruction from Florida to Canada. Hugo was the fiercest storm to strike the U.S. East Coast since then. Last year, almost to the week, Gilbert, a maximum Category 5 hurricane with 175-m.p.h. winds, had howled along a more westerly course, pounding Jamaica before stomping into Mexico and the U.S. Gulf Coast...