Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working people who just want to help out a little in their extra time, or college students interested in psychology or altruism. While Place has put up posters in subway stations and listed its services in local newspapers, word-of-mouth throughout the last decade has done most to spread the news about Project Place: that it is a good way to help people in need and to learn to counsel effectively. My roommate heard about it from an old roommate of his, and one day took me along to his Tuesday morning shift so I could see for myself...
...stitching was done at the new Yuba-Feather Health Center, three log cabins built as a staging site for fighting forest fires but recently transformed into a medical resource serving 8,000 people spread over 900 sq. mi. of mountain. It was paid for out of federal and private funds, which cover the salaries of two full-time physicians: Rose, 32, and his partner, Dr. William Hoffman, 34. Both the center and the young doctors who staff it are signs of a national effort to bring doctoring back to rural America...
...American farmyards. Now there are 4.4 million tractors on 2.7 million farms. A U.S. farmer today can seed 300 acres of wheat a day, vs. 85 acres in 1950. Meanwhile, land grant state universities, which were started under a program of President Lincoln's, have researched and spread technological breakthroughs. Out of the agricultural experiment stations in the early 1930s came means of cross-pollinating two types of purebred corn. The resulting hybrid was particularly hardy and produced 50% higher yields. Later the Green Revolution, for which U.S. Scientist Norman E. Borlaug won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, produced...
...snow-blown slopes of the Afghan mountains, 75,000 Soviet troops turned their invasion into a full-scale occupation. Moscow's divisions spread into the hinterlands to stiffen the Afghan army's wavering resistance against the Muslim insurgency. A huge Soviet military airlift, which set the stage for the Christmas overthrow and execution of President Hafizullah Amin, showed no sign of slowing. Each day, eight to ten gigantic Antonov transport planes landed at Kabul and Bagram airports. Besides an arsenal of T-62 tanks and armored personnel carriers, the planes disgorged electric generators, bulldozers and building materials-telltale...
...decline of colonial protection has not discouraged the growth of Christianity; neither has the existence of those hostile regimes that have often replaced colonialism. The spread "is true of the entire tropical belt of Africa from east to west," says Barrett. And southward too, except that growth is slower in South Africa. There "Christianity is still associated with white Afrikanerdom...