Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down, slowly so the whoosh could be heard. "Klansmen to the cross," he intoned solemnly; and forth they went, lighting the gas-doused burlap wrapped around it. In a second the flames rolled up the shaft and across the crossbar; around it, Klansmen danced in ecstasy, arms spread wide, the heat and light full on their chests. The followers, the bikers, broke the "reverent silence" Wilkinson had requested and began to holler: "Get me a nigger," "Put a Puerto Rican up there, they burn well cause they're so greasy...
Students living in Harvard dorms and registered to vote in Cambridge are spread across eight city precincts. Below is a list of precincts and polling places. Polls will open at 8 a.m. today and stay open until...
...light. If the gas in the tube is a helium-neon mix, the laser produces a red beam; a mercury-bromine mix yields a green streak, and other vapors generate other shades. All beams are made up of bundles of electromagnetic energy called photons. Because the photons barely spread out as they move, the beam can achieve pinpoint accuracy...
...scientists are dealing with a third kind of ray known as a neutral-particle beam. It is made up of particles that carry no electrical charge, such as neutral hydrogen atoms; it would be useful in the vacuum of space, where charged particles like protons and electrons tend to spread out. Development of particle beam weapons is perhaps as much as a decade behind HELS. But if the technology can be ironed out, these could be in military use by the mid-1990s...
...authors drag Morrison along from his military-brat childhood to his frenetic rambling around the Los Angeles music scene of the '60s, where he knew how to hold center stage, even lying on his back. Hopkins and Sugerman relate how Morrison, spread out on the studio floor, prepared for the first Doors recording session by chanting a primal litany of incest and patricide. The authors provide little evidence that Morrison grew much in the five years following this session, not emotionally, certainly not aesthetically...