Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...India's apolitical, non-sectarian military; throughout the recent crisis mixed Sikh-Hindu battalions have struggled to prevent violence both in Hindu and in Sikh communities. Even if investigations into the alleged military conspiracy come up with substantive charges there is still little likelihood that the disease will spread throughout the bulk of the army. Institutional soundness, a dedication to peace and duty, and above all a sense of subordination to civilian authority have every chance of survival in Indian democracy's most valuable pillar--the military...
Dadaism was originally a movement formed in Europe to protest the horrors of World War I, but it spread to America during the teens and the twenties where it outraged its contemporaries, much as The Sex Pistols did. A sculpture entitled "fountain," no more than a toilet seat hung by a nail, drew special condemnation for its vulgarity. Another work--a print of the "Mona Lisa" with a moustache drawn over the famous smile and the phrase "L. H. O. O. Q." under it--was roundly criticized for its irreverence. The phrase, roughly translated, means...
...July 1966, Stephen Young was walking through the village of Ban Chiang in northeastern Thailand when he tripped across history. "I stumbled over the root of a kapok tree and ended up spread-eagle in the dirt, and under my face was the rim of a pot," recalls Young, who was then a 20-year-old Harvard student spending the summer researching a political-science thesis...
...into a crystal ball and said, 'You can win this election with a lot of votes or win by just a few votes but get a sympathetic Congress,' I would choose the latter." With a cock of the head and flashing his folksy grin, Reagan added, "Help spread the word, get out the vote. And if you can, well, win those races for the Gipper...
...news of the Prime Minister's death began to spread through New Delhi, there were screams, weeping and tearing of hair, but mostly the kind of stoic acceptance that Indians tend to show in times of sorrow and pain. "She's gone," they told one another, rarely using her name, because in India, "she" meant Indira. All around Connaught Place, the capital's commercial center, there was the sound of steel shutters slamming down as shop after shop closed for twelve days of mourning. By late afternoon, New Delhi had become a ghostly city of empty streets. Flags were lowered...