Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...until several months after his arrival at Pinfang, when he was assigned to clean up a restricted room that contained human remains on which researchers had been experimenting. Ordered to keep silent or be court-martialed, he was put to work breeding fleas and rats, which were used to spread germs. Sometimes, he recalls, prisoners destined to die in the experiments waved at him from their cells, offering him food. "I was only a little shaven-headed kid," he explains. "They probably thought I was one of them...
With novels, side trips are okay. "A novel for me was a wonderful feeling. It was like getting into a warm bath and being able to spread out and loll around in these lovely paragraphs and pages of description." Fair warning: a warm, lolling author does not mean that readers and characters will escape Proulx's lash. She assesses the tone of her Accordion Crimes as "black and scarlet...
Others argued that it's never too soon to spread Christmas cheer...
...outrage spread, Rollins recanted, issuing a statement that "my remarks left the impression of something that was not true and did not occur." Voters may soon learn which version of Rollins' story is closer to the truth: Whitman promised to release her campaign finance records over the weekend, ahead of the deadline imposed by state law for both parties to disclose how they spent the $5.9 million each is allotted for the campaign. Rollins, who had been distrusted by many Republicans since he defected to Ross Perot during the 1992 presidential campaign, may find himself shunned by future candidates. Says...
...silhouettes and generally high degree of abstraction in the color -- it isn't notably dynamic; ^ it tends to an Egyptian stillness, friezelike even when you know the subject was in motion, like the crowd surging into the narrow slot between two railroad cars in No. 23, And the Migration Spread...