Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pleas to my superintendent's sense of hygiene failed. Then two days ago, I got into the shower. Instead of being greeted by my old friend drawn together in a "V" at the pleats by the sticky gook, I found a brand-new curtain spread majestically across the opening. I was startled, but the answer came to me. The alumni are in town...
...killed one man," said Ansari afterward, pointing to a pile of ashes, a charred shirt, a sandal and a puddle of blood. "They stabbed him in the stomach with a sword and poured kerosene on him and set him on fire while he was still alive." The violence quickly spread to Bhiwandi's slum areas, where Hindus and Muslims live uncomfortably side by side: an estimated 15,000 huts were put to the torch. Soon the rioting spilled over to other industrial towns in the region and to Bombay itself...
...much of which is imported from Bolivia and Peru, to the marketing of cocaine and marijuana in the U.S. According to Colombian police, Escobar's personal holdings include at least 15 airplanes, numerous ranches throughout Colombia and real estate holdings in the U.S. At his 10,000-acre spread near Puerto Triunfo, Escobar kept a private zoo of 1,500 animals, among them a five-ton elephant. He was elected to Colombia's Congress in 1982 as head of his own political party, and is still a Congressman. He is rumored to be in Australia...
...Poems (1948) won the prestigious Heinemann Award. Critics were divided on Betjeman's poetry; many found it trivial or derivative, perhaps because of its simple musical rhymes and accessible themes. An astute architectural critic, he waged passionate campaigns to preserve England's historical treasures and opposed the spread of urban development. In 1972, Queen Elizabeth named Betjeman poet laureate, a title once held by Tennyson and Wordsworth, but ill health curtailed his productivity over the past decade. One of his last collections, A Nip in the Air, concluded with a poignant epitaph: "Now if the harvest is over...
Officials at Continental were incensed. David G. Taylor, who became chairman last month, denounced the rumors as baseless and threatened to sue wire services that had reported them. The journalists, he said, had spread the gossip without checking the facts. In a highly unusual move, C. Todd Conover...