Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four politicians and professors last night openly denounced violations of human rights and cited the need for policies favoring the spread of Western democracy...
Neighborhood activists worry that the spread of pinball and liquor licenses exemplifies the direction in which the area is going. One person active in the fight against Dream Machine places his battle in a larger context. "We're all pretty worried about what the Square is going to look like once the tornado that is the Red Line settles. Maybe it's just nostalgia. but I'm not pleased with what's happened with the number of ice cream stores and pizza stores, as opposed to drugstores and quality clothing stores...In that respect, the video at cade does...
Even the neighborhood children joined in the systematic humiliation of the Liang's throwing rocks at the family's windows and beating up Liang Heng. Liang makes little criticism of them, for no one expects rationality from children. But when the cruel methods of public humiliation and torture spread to adults during the "Traveling Struggle" movement, the parallel is disturbing...
...Parliament, which he calls "the talking shop." He is further nettled by his son's marriage to the daughter of a financier, whose occupation Sir Arthur views as "almost as low as being in trade." The old man also rails at the spread of public education and the rumor that some London clubs are using billiard balls composed not exclusively of ivory...
After Brown nabbed a couple of buckets. Harvard put on the freeze. For the next five minutes the Harvard defense put a lid on the Brown net. Brown's spread offense, the only formation it had employed since the 10-minute mark, never really clicked. Meanwhile, the cagers went to the races, capitalizing on Bruin turnovers to break by the quicker Brown team...