Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became a phantasmagoric inferno. Half an hour after the explosion, firemen finally moved to control the blaze. There was a rattle of gunfire in or around the Move compound, and according to some reports, the police returned it. Ordered back out of range, fire fighters watched as the flames spread first to adjacent houses, then down the street...
...bomb cause the fire? It certainly appeared to on television. Yet Sambor argued otherwise. He blamed the blaze on the presence of other flammable materials that could have caught fire when the bomb detonated. The police commissioner said he believed that Move members might have deliberately spread around combustible fluids like gasoline, and he even said Move members might have intentionally struck the fire that was to kill them. The inescapable peculiarity of Sambor's argument was that it forced him to insist that police, at the time they decided to drop the bomb, had no knowledge that there...
...official publication. The easy explanation is that the vast audience that enjoyed The Thorn Birds (1977) will buy anything McCullough writes. But something else may be fueling this phenomenon. The appearance of perfection in any form is a rare and noteworthy event. News of its arrival is bound to spread, and perhaps, in this case, the word is already out: A Creed for the Third Millennium could well be the most perfectly awful novel ever published...
...tagon outlays next year beyond what is necessary to keep up with infla tion. Nothing else could squeak through the Republican-controlled Senate--and even so, the vote scheduled on Thursday was going to be breathtakingly close. The President finally said yes, and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole quickly spread the word. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who had turned Reagan against accepting deep cuts in military spending many times before, phoned Lisbon to protest. Stories differed as to whether he got through to Reagan directly; in any case, he was too late. The President got on the transatlantic phone...
Police made repeated trips into the stand to rescue trapped fans. Terry Yorath, the Bradford coach, suffered cuts on his face as he tried to help people escape. "The fire simply erupted at the back of the stand and seemed to spread everywhere inside seconds," Yorath said. "We were all panic- stricken and had no idea what to do." The fire started under the grandstand floorboards, and authorities are investigating the possibility of arson. The estimated toll: 40 dead, 200 injured. Said a police spokesman: "As far as we know it is the worst fire ever in a British football...