Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down in the outside seat, because if a person wants to sit down next to you, they have to go through the hassle of asking you to get up and then squishing past you to get to their seat--clearly not an appealing option. Then you spread out all your stuff on the seats next to you, in as much disarray as possible, so that those looking for seats also have to wait until you move all your belongings and rearrange them under your seat--and, just out of spite, under the one that he or she is about...
Last Friday the FBI released its own report admitting that it and the White House had committed "egregious violations of privacy." But while the report spread the blame equally between the two sides of the copy flow, director Louis Freeh seemed to pin it mostly on the Clinton camp. "The prior system of providing files to the White House relied on good faith and honor,'' he said. "Unfortunately, the FBI and I were victimized." Agent Aldrich has refused to provide details about his own allegations, but that may happen as early as next week when William Clinger, chairman...
Seagram's ad is p.r. heaven: spend a few bucks on an incendiary TV spot, then let the media spread the word. The industry needs the lift: sales of cases of distilled spirits, according to M. Shanken Communications, shrank from 190 million in 1980 to 135 million in 1995--a drop of 29%. Beer and wine marketers, meanwhile, exploiting the mistaken perception that their products contain less alcohol than distilled spirits, used such icons as Spuds MacKenzie and the Swedish Bikini Team to boost sales by even more than the distillers lost...
...feeling it, she sang it wonderfully. For many, indeed, she sang it definitively. "I never knew how good our songs were," Ira Gershwin once remarked, "until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them." By the time she died at home in Beverly Hills last week at 78, she had spread the treasure of her voice over thousands of songs and half a dozen generations, cutting everyone in on the wonder. There was something about her voice that glistened, that refracted off an up-tempo number like a sudden shot of sun or shone off a ballad like a sideling beam...
...other human targets. Eight men in all, including Rafer Johnson, an Olympic champion, and Roosevelt Grier, a 300-lb. Los Angeles Rams football lineman, attempted to overpower the slight but lithe assailant. Johnson finally knocked the pistol out of the stubborn hand [and together with Grier held the suspect] spread-eagled on the counter. Several R.F.K. supporters tried to kill the man with their hands. Johnson and Grier fended them off. Someone had the presence of mind to shout: 'Let's not have another Oswald!' Johnson pocketed the gun...[S]cores of people pressed in." --June...