Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fire spread swiftly from the water line to the deck. Landing craft hurried to the Antelope to lift off the crew and transfer them to other ships. More explosions sent sparks and debris high into the air as the frigate burned through the night. At dawn, the hulk was still glowing red, one side ripped open. Finally, hours later, the Antelope sank...
...university, Bok argues, has entered into an anomalous kind of contract with the rest of society, an arrangement which has grown increasingly enigmatic as the scope and influence of the "multiversity" has spread. Society must seek to guarantee what Justice Felix Frankfurter described as "the 'four essential freedoms' of a university--to determine for itself on academic grounds who may teach, what may be taught, how it should be taught, and who may be admitted to study." In return for this autonomy, the university must abide by "the basic obligations required of every participant in a civilized society" the fulfillment...
Encouraged and trained by the local sheriff to bolster his thinly spread paid forces, such posses now number 43 in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County. The Sun City posse is the largest and, with an average age of 68, the most elderly. The oldest participant: 84-year-old Bill Moore. Volunteers patrol by twos in cars 17 hours a day and summon the professional cops by radio if they spot serious trouble. As part of "vacation watch," a posse patrolman will also check doors and windows for residents who leave town. And always, posse members are alert...
Unemployment in America is taking on new and startling dimensions. No longer are the bulk of layoffs confined to just autos and housing, which have been in a three-year slump. Unemployment has spread to textiles, pulp and paper, steel, oil drilling and refining, mining and chemicals. Along with union members and the semiskilled, white-collar workers are losing their jobs. Edward Lieberman, 28, was shocked when he could not find work after being laid off from his $20,000-a-year job as a computer-software salesman in Los Angeles. Said he: "I've discovered that I need...
...critics contend that Dershowitz-advocate, teacher, author-has spread himself too thin. He strongly disagrees. Almost as if to prove his ability to budget time effectively, Dershowitz maintains a busy personal life that includes attending home games of his beloved Boston Celtics and making regular trips to the opera in Manhattan. In the 1970s, after being divorced and successfully fighting to gain custody of his two adolescent sons, Dershowitz would rush home every afternoon to cook the boys' supper. Rearing them, he says, was "the most gratifying" thing he has ever done. Now that both are away at college...