Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever its origin, the Christmas tree spread throughout Germany and was brought to America by Hessian troops during the Revolutionary War. But the tree did not gain popularity until the mid-1800's, when a picture of Queen Victoria's elaborate fir appeared in Godey's Lady's Book, the fashionable magazine...
Every day, it seems, a new revelation spills out, throwing the embattled Allen into an even more precarious position. First came the news that Japanese journalists had left $1000 with Allen as gratitude for setting up an interview with Nancy Reagan. Reports then spread that the Japanese had also given Allen a couple of expensive watches. That was followed by rumors of the company Allen had founded, suggesting that he was profiting from business that the company was currently doing with foreign clients...
...district in south London with a population that is 36% black, demanded greater police protection from rising street crime. Then young blacks, angered by heavy-landed "stop and search" measures vigorously enforced by the police, went on a rampage with stones, bricks, iron bars and petrol bombs. The disorders spread to many other communities in Britain. When it was over, an estimated 3,000 people had been arrested and 1,500 policemen injured...
...increasingly, right-wing mullahs against the revolution's leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Though the disputes have so far been contained, they have become worrisome enough to elicit a pointed warning from Khomeini: "Let no one doubt that if dissension continues between groups committed to Islam, it will spread nationwide and lead to armed confrontation...
...writer of Renault's re-creative powers had little difficulty moving from Theseus, mythical founder of a unified Attica, to Alexander the Great, who spread the seed of Hellenism across Asia Minor, North Africa and the brow of India. In Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, Renault took the most romantic of all military heroes from his beginnings as son of Philip of Macedon through his glories as youthful conqueror...