Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pair of young West Berliners, standing before a water cannon, ramming a post into the Wall, as inconceivable as hundreds of youths celebrating before the Brandenburg Gate, as simply staggering as a peak-capped East German border guard handing a flower to West German women seated atop the barrier, spread throughout the Western world...
...trusts that John D. Rockefeller Jr. created in 1934 for his heirs. As the Manhattan real estate boom swelled the value of the Rockefeller Group's properties from 25% of the trust's assets a few years ago to 50% today, trust administrators saw the need to spread the money around...
...problems in the Kennedy School were restricted to the student computer center and did not spread to other machines at the school, Samenfeld said...
Wall told the committee that his agency rescued 75 institutions in December at a cost of $15.5 billion to be spread out over 10 years. Tax benefits arising from the deals will cost the government an additional $4 billion...
...well-drilled 585-man fire department proved all but useless: broken mains left the city without water. Scattered blazes soon converged into fire storms that gobbled up huge swaths of the city. The inferno spread despite desperate attempts to create firebreaks by dynamiting whole blocks of homes and businesses. Writer Jack London, who lived in Sonoma County, said what everyone saw: "I knew it was all doomed...