Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rescue force of 75 Miami city police with clubs, shotguns and attack dogs charged into the crowd. The demonstrators answered with rocks and cries of "Pigs!" The police finally smashed their way through a side entrance into the Public Safety headquarters and secured the building, but the violence spread. Eighteen major fires started and burned out of control. The crack of sniper fire echoed through the sweltering night...
During his rambling, four-hour speech Sadat talked at length about strife between Egypt's 2.5 million Coptic Christian minority and Muslim fundamentalists, which has grown more strident with the rise of Islamic militancy. He announced a ban on ecclesiastical groups that "seek to spread political dissension," an obvious reference to Islamic demonstrations against both the peace treaty with Israel and the presence in Egypt of the former Shah of Iran. He assured the Copts that they had nothing to fear. Said Sadat: "Our Islam is not [the Ayatullah] Khomeini's Islam. Khomeini's revolution...
...allegory, was the keynote of his so-called Blue Period. Late in 1901 he had painted some Gauguin-like figures, using the characteristic flat silhouettes and solid blue boundary lines that Gauguin, in his turn, had extracted from Japanese decorative art. By 1902 the blueness of this line had spread to dominate the whole painting. It had a symbolic value, of course: it spoke of melancholy, of the "blues." But it also enabled Picasso, as the pervasive brown-gray monochrome of analytical cubism later would in a different way, to take color out of his work, so that he could...
...broader sense, any legal challenge to "pornography" or any other form of speech or expression must be met head on. Not to do so is to legitimize censorhisp--and censorship, once it has a foothold, can spread to many other areas...
...suggested ways to improve writing are truly new. What is new is the national conviction that something must be done about writing, and the challenge of trying to spread writing skills widely throughout a society as diverse as the U.S.'s. As Richard Lloyd-Jones, associate director of the Iowa institute, observes, "In the 12th century, you could have 50 to 100 scribes take care of all the business of the Court of Chancery in England. Only in the 20th century have we had the notion that everyone needs to be able to do it. Until now we have...