Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million in cash, property -- including her $3.5 million apartment -- amounting to nearly $8 million, and $15 million to $20 million in stock.) An acquaintance of Jack Kennedy's, the Belgian-born Tempelsman, 64, eventually moved into her Fifth Avenue flat and shared her life at her $2 million summer spread in Martha's Vineyard...
WASHINGTON -- BILL and HILLARY CLINTON, normally slow to plan their summer vacations, are getting an early start this year. The Clintons are interested ; in returning to Martha's Vineyard, but this time they want a spread that is a bit more lavish than the modest digs provided last August by former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The Secret Service has begun to do some advance checking on the island but hasn't yet found a suitable house. Apparently nobody who has a place large enough to suit the First Family wants to give it up and miss the chance to hobnob...
...surprisingly, the story became the No. 1 subject of Omaha talk shows and heated community debates. As Hull says, "I expected the story would cause ripples in a small city like Omaha." But the ripples spread far beyond talk. The mayor of Omaha and the Governor of Nebraska called special meetings to address youth violence. And in November, Omaha passed one of the toughest gun- control laws in the U.S., making it illegal for anyone younger than 21 to carry a loaded handgun. For offenders, the new law carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days in jail...
...college," the article reads, "there has been almost on discussion of this work in pages of student publications and very little informal discussion outside the narrow circles of workshop students and magazine staffs." Let Dartboard translate: although my friends and I have managed to hijack the Advocate and spread our mediocre juvenilia around campus, on one writes about us. Boo hoo. Up until now, we considered it useless to comment on an issue about which the campus feels roughly unanimous. And as for Mr. Canner's last point, it all depends on whether one's definition of "informal discussion" includes...
...seek sanctuary in such abstractions marked him as an outsider while he lived and a prophet now, in an age of discredited dogmas. Reviewing Le Premier Homme, Paris' Le Monde asked, "Can we now rediscover Camus without political and historical prejudices, in his quest for truth?" The answer will spread with the translations, and it seems...