Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember this fall--the year football died. No good reasons now to blow off Sundays no pretext for beers at dinner Monday night, drunk in anxious anticipation. No reason to read Sports Monday, unless you count the results from the Australian grass court tennis circuit. The recession has spread to organized crime and the bookies must be hurting. Yeah, there's still college football, but I'll shoot the cap off a bottle of beer with 22 to 50 yards blindfolded before I pick four college games correctly...
...this point, however, he said he does not favor any major change in the freshman housing lottery system that would spread groups more evenly across the Houses, because, he said, "the basic idea of free choice" built into the current preferential lottery system is worthwhile...
...that time, word of the massacre had spread and panic swept through the camps. The throngs of refugees who had gathered at Gaza Hospital took off on foot to find shelter farther north. Along with them went 45 patients from the hospital, who fled their beds and joined the exodus. For a time, said a European staffer who remained behind, "it was deadly, deadly silent." Some survivors, meanwhile, later recalled seeing Christian militiamen operating a roadblock near the southern entrance to the camps, while hundreds of Israeli soldiers stood...
...Monday morning, as the cleanup of the massacre began, one final moment of panic swept the camps. While volunteer civil defense workers dug a huge pit near the entrance of Shatila to bury the dead, word spread that the militiamen were returning. Thousands of screaming Palestinians poured out of the camps and ran toward downtown Beirut. It is one thing to have escaped a massacre. It is quite another to escape the memory of it. -By George Russell. Reported by Roberto Suro/Beirut
Mabrey wants her team to spread out its offense, thereby forcing opposing defenses to cover more ground. As the stick women tire, they begin to migrate toward the ball, defenders in tow. The result is a cramped offense that keeps the ball in front of the goal but can't find the back...