Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who communicated what they saw or thought they saw. He chronicles the Harvard Faculty and History department with equal enthusiasm. While he fails to mention the awe his colleagues surely felt toward him and his Herculean creation of East Asian history courses which would eventually multiply and spread. Fairbank exudes an almost boyish excitement when depicting the Harvard Faculty. The descriptions are intentionally amusing it indulgent...
After an effective stall in which UMass controlled the ball for more than three minutes. Stevens spread some icing at 3:45 with an unassisted goal. The win gave UMass its second victory in as many games...
...America in the 19th. In this day of home computers and space travel, the Amish eschew zippers as decadent, electricity as unnecessary and flush toilets as wasteful. They forgo the automobile in favor of sleek trotters and canvas-topped carriages of hickory wood. They use fine, sturdy workhorses to spread manure and plow their fields, which is what they are doing these days as spring spreads over their green country...
...year from $25 million in fiscal 1981. Aides pointedly let reporters eavesdrop as Reagan warned his hosts that the tiny (pop. 108,000) island of Grenada, whose Prime Minister was not invited to the conference, "now bears the Soviet and Cuban trademark, which means that it will attempt to spread the virus [of Marxism] among its neighbors." Then the President got away to relax at the empty nine-room Barbadian villa of Paul Brandt, a furniture manufacturer from Fort Worth. (Colbert's home was too small...
Fearing widespread trouble, Israeli soldiers immediately closed the seven entrances to the Old City. As word of the shooting spread, hundreds of Arabs gathered in angry clusters at the courtyard of the Dome of the Rock. At one point, 100 Arab youths, approaching a group of soldiers, chanted Barra, barra! (Out, out!). Reports TIME's Robert Slater: "Suddenly stones were being hurled at the soldiers. One of them fired a tear-gas canister at the crowd, which then fled toward the Dome of the Rock. Meanwhile, soldiers were moving toward the protesters in a pincer movement. I found myself...