Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a special group of players and a coachwho pushed all the right buttons during the year.In one clutch situation after another, Lindendropped back into the shotgun, Harvard spread thefield with four wide receivers and eitherChupaila, Skelton or Patterson would make theconversion catch. In one defining moment afteranother, the defense stopped a runner cold orbatted a pass down...
...easy to look back and see the spread of nuclear technology across the globe. A history book can contextualize the dropping of the bomb in this respect, helpfully inserting a "then" before the action as it tells the story of World War II in a grander portrait of the past 1,500 years. The use of such a qualifier helps to connote a progression of events--one that seemingly had to be. And even though we are wise to the fact that contingencies speak to the contrary, it is nonetheless undeniable that we are where we are now because...
Administrators say these border conflicts werejust minor "irritations," but their sum lookedlike a war when news spread through the Universitycommunity that Radcliffe was renegotiating thebasis of its relationship with Harvard--andpossibly severing its undergraduate ties...
...central issues of the year were the spread of communism and the implementation of the Marshall Plan, and students were as confident then as they are now that the world cared deeply about the events unfolding on the Harvard stage...
...fasts on Monday and Thursday, even when he is traveling abroad. In 1990 he founded the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals in an attempt to reach out to some of the 87% of the population, including most of the poor, who are Muslim. His religious supporters hope he will spread their dream of Islamic ascendancy for Indonesia. Yet he is a highly educated scientist and dedicated believer in the power of technology. He studied aeronautical engineering in Germany and worked his way up to a vice presidency at the aircraft makers Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm before Suharto personally called him home...