Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discussed ethics with residents of Elmbrook University Center, one of Boston's two all-male chapters of the Catholic group Opus Dei. Housed in a three-story building near the Law School, the group works to spread the "Christian message," said center resident Mark Albanese...
...proposal before the Berkeley city council becomes law, hoteliers will be offering more than a bed, bath and Gideon Bible. Leland Traiman, a registered nurse who treats AIDS patients, has suggested that the city help combat the spread of the disease by requiring hotels and motels to equip each guest room with safe-sex information kits, including condoms. The kits would also be distributed at some local massage parlors and saunas. "There could be a sign with each kit saying, THE BIBLE MAY SAVE YOUR SOUL, BUT THIS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE," says Traiman. Some innkeepers fear that guests might...
...French troops who surrendered in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. But the Marines did not surrender. In March, Westmoreland was replaced as U.S. commander in South Viet Nam by General Creighton Abrams. President Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. In the same month, whispers spread of a horrifying massacre of civilians carried out by U.S. troops at a hamlet called My Lai. In May, North Vietnamese representatives landed in Paris to start talks -- seemingly endless talks -- with U.S. delegate Averell Harriman. In June, the Marines were told to abandon Khe Sanh. The U.S. high command had decided...
...conceivable that AIDS will fan out from the ghettos into the general population, but not likely. If the spread occurs, it will be slow: many scientists believe the virus is passed along less readily in conventional intercourse than in homosexual encounters. Anal intercourse is by far the most likely means of sexual transmission. Although the evidence is sketchy, women seem to be more at risk than men of acquiring the virus from the opposite sex. So far, 1,757 U.S.-born women may have contracted AIDS from men, and 565 men from women...
...several mornings before he left, Reagan brought his friendly squirrels a double ration of acorns. He spread them out on the veranda beyond his window and watched the scramble. His staff found a squirrel-size sign that read BEWARE OF DOGS and placed it along the squirrel path. When President-elect Bush came around for his final minutes with his old mentor and boss, Reagan pointed out the sign, mindful that the Bushes will move in with a pregnant English springer spaniel named Millie and before long the grounds will swarm with puppies. "I'll keep the sign right there...