Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Long before the polls closed, the people knew what they had done. Before the radio began reporting returns, before the platoons of international observers were totting up their "quick counts" and the battalions of reporters were frantically calling in the news, the word had spread across Managua. "We're going to win!" shouted a woman tending a bubbling cauldron in front of her house in one of the city's poorest barrios, thought to be a stronghold of the ruling Sandinistas. The Sandinistas? she was asked. "No, not those sons of bitches," she spat back. "The Dona. Dona Violeta...
...probably only the death in 1242 of Batu's uncle, the Great Khan Ugedey (he was apparently - poisoned by a jealous woman in his entourage), that saved Western Europe from the fate of Kiev. Batu decided to retrench and consolidate his rule over the khanate of the Golden Horde. Spread thin though they were, the Mongols of the Golden Horde ruled Russia for more than two centuries, and it was a harsh rule. Mongol tax collectors beggared the peasantry, and occupied Russia remained completely isolated from what the West came to know as the Renaissance. One unexpected consequence: the devastation...
...speech yesterday, Clark said that asdean he had to spread limited resources among avariety of funding needs, including facultyresearch, clinical programs and public interestfellowships...
...Bush Administration may be forgiven for reacting slowly to the phantasmagoria of 1989. No one saw the collapse of communism coming, and no one could be sure that it would continue, much less spread. The next stage, however, is more predictable: sooner or later what started in the Soviet Union will engulf Moscow's clones in the Third World. This time there will be no excuse for the U.S. to be caught flat-footed...
American communists say their other immediate goal is to educate the public. Although most parties rely on their newspapers to communicate to the masses--journals such as Revolutionary Worker and People's Daily World--they also hold public forums and discussions to spread their message...