Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While officials at Boston University are taking measures to prevent the spread of the recent measles epidemic that hit that campus, members of the Harvard community expressed little concern yesterday about contracting the disease...
Only 20 Harvard students have stopped by UHS to check their immunization history, despite warnings this week that the measles could spread to Harvard, Sholem Postel, director of medical services at UHS, said yesterday...
...disclosures last week raised the possibility that the institution has been involved, perhaps unknowingly, in money laundering, the booming illegal business of covering up the origin of funds earned from drug trafficking and other crimes. Growing concern about the spread of money laundering prompted the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations to announce plans for a probe of the Boston institution, which is New England's largest banking company (assets: $21 billion). Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, declared that the Boston episode shows the need for tighter controls over the financial industry...
Under the supervision of Scott County Attorney Kathleen Morris, the number of arrests for alleged child sexual abuse grew. Fear spread through the once tranquil community. Children related detailed incidents of sodomy, incest and bestiality. One young girl reported being forced to eat a cat and a pet gerbil, "fur and all." A ten-year-old boy said he was kidnaped and driven to a party where whip-wielding women in see-through clothes forced him into sexual acts with other children and adults that were photographed...
...year is 1899, and something eerie is happening. Sophie Fevvers, a trapeze artist who has already taken the Continent by storm, now holds London in thrall. Her act is indeed worth catching. For Fevvers, who stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall, also boasts a pair of wings that, when spread, span 6 ft. She does not hurtle; she soars. Attracted by the publicity, an American journalist named Jack Walser thinks he may have found another subject for a series he is planning on "Great Humbugs of the World." He interviews the famed "Cockney Venus" in her dressing room after...