Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...rush home for each Thursday-night episode, then talk about little else at the office water cooler the next morning. Magazines print charts detailing the convoluted relationships among the show's three-dozen- plus characters. Quirky scenes and dialogue have entered TV's collective memory bank, like Lucy's spread of doughnuts for Sheriff Truman and his deputies: "A policeman's dream." At George Washington University, students launched Thursday-night pie-eating rituals: everybody digs in as soon as FBI agent Cooper bites into a slice of cherry or huckleberry. Fans are trading theories about Laura's killer...
...drug-related violence and semiautomatic assault rifles have spread across the nation, an increasing number of police departments have equipped their officers with bulletproof vests. Now drug dealers are following the lead. Over the past few years, police in Washington and other cities have noticed an upsurge in hoodlums clad in "soft body armor" capable of stopping a shot from a .357 Magnum, to say nothing of less powerful police sidearms...
...demise of some women's colleges, however, has breathed new life into others. Although the total number of students at such schools has slipped from 250,000 to 125,000 during the past 20 years, these women today are spread over a smaller number of institutions, boosting head counts at many of them. Since 1970, undergraduate enrollment at the surviving women's colleges has shot up more than 18%. Two of the strongest, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, enjoyed a 6% surge in applications this year...
...surprisingly, the most persuasive proselytizers for sustainable agriculture are those who have profited by it. Since 1981, Wilbert Blumhardt and his son Glenn have been fighting erosion on their 3,000-acre spread near Bowdle, S. Dak., by planting wheat, sunflowers, soybeans and corn in fields littered by the debris from earlier harvests. "That trash," says Wilbert, "serves an important purpose. It helps feed the soil, and it allows the water to soak in and not wash off into lakes and streams." Last year the Blumhardts' fields produced an average of 27 bu. of wheat an acre, 30% more than...
These grand institutions began during the 17th century with the spread all over Europe of the Arab taste for coffee. The oldest cafe in Paris is the Procope, which has been operating on the Rue de l'Ancienne Comedie ever since 1686. The Procope was nearly a century old when it claimed Benjamin Franklin and Voltaire among its customers. Later came the revolutionaries, Robespierre, Danton, Marat and even Napoleon...