Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will continue to gain popular support in the Third World and in stifling countries like Poland, where its moral rightness is combined with its practical appeal. In other words, it is a tool to fight the exploiters. What American progressive Christians must figure out how to do is to spread a liberation theology to exploiters, and that will be much harder...
...more than 80 hospitals surveyed violated 1974 sterilization consent regulations even though they had been in effect for five years. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, chairman of the Health Research group, says these hospitals, which primarily service the poor, serve as training grounds for sterilization abuse practices, which then spread elsewhere...
According to Nan Vogt, Co-Master of Kirkland House, the Secret Santa tradition was an invention of Linda Riordan '79, who proposed the idea to the Kirkland House Committee during her sophomore year. Riordan's idea spread quickly to the other Houses and the Yard as a means of expressing holiday spirit...
...ouster came just after Pope John Paul II asserted Tang's Vatican connection by appointing him Archbishop of Canton. Tang's Communist-approved successor in Canton, Bishop Ye Yinyun, has continued to press the battle against the Vatican, accusing visiting priests from Hong Kong of efforts to "spread rumors and disrupt the work of the Chinese church." The new arrests mark an ominous escalation. Outside observers cannot yet assess how far the toughening government attitude will go. But many of those arrested are elderly, and friends fear they would not survive long prison sentences...
Christmas cards became popular in the 1860s, when people experimented with sending visiting cards inscribed simply Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. In the late 1800s, the royal family adopted the practice and employed distinguished artists to design the cards. Thereafter the custom spread rapidly across Europe and America...