Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movies and imploring the yeomen of Tennessee to switch off their Atwater Kent radios, take down that country fiddle from the wall and scrape out an Elizabethan air. Their best poet, John Crowe Ransom, magically evoked a land where larks' tongues are never stilled, "sunlight lies like pale spread straw" and ladies of "beauty and high degree" arrange jasmine in vases, as courtly gentlemen pace the veranda. "Turn your eyes to the immoderate past," Agrarian Allen Tate advised in his best poem, Ode to the Confederate Dead...
Though fire officials claimed to have found at least one serious fire violation in the hotel-holes had inexplicably been cut in the fire walls near the catwalk, possibly helping the fire spread-the MGM Grand apparently met all other fire regulations. The county building code passed in 1979 required new hotels in Las Vegas to install sprinklers and smoke detectors on every floor, but the MGM Grand, built in 1973, was exempt. The hotel had sprinklers only on the basement, first and top floors. There were no smoke detectors. Said MGM Grand Hotels Board Chairman Fred Benninger...
...Giuseppe Zamberletti, 56, the government's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Appointed commissioner for the stricken area on Tuesday, Zamberletti set up headquarters in Naples and immediately imposed some badgering generalship on his sprawling forces. By Friday large quantities of food, clothing and medical supplies to prevent the spread of disease were flowing into the major towns, though deliveries to the most isolated villages remained slow. The commissioner also busied himself requisitioning railroad cars and seaside tourist hotels to provide temporary shelter for the homeless. "If people do not need to remain close to their homes, we can move...
...nuclear war. The consensus: chances are low over the next four years but may double by the '90s. The most optimistic finding is that a global nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is least likely; more probable is a regional war that does not spread. Most probable: a nuclear Israel-Arab war, with Israel ruined but prevailing, and an India-Pakistan war with India winning...
...payroll tax would spread the need for additional revenues among those with the capacity to pay," city councilor David Sullivan, who drafted the home rule petition, said yesterday...