Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Even in enlightened circles, condolences are in order for a couple whose newborn is a girl. Over dinner in the Beijing apartment of a liberal-party cadre, a young guest proudly passes around color photos of her infant son, lying spread-eagled on a blanket, his genitals prominently displayed. Seated beside her, the new mother of a baby girl looks on in wistful silence. She carries no pictures. Jiang Junsheng, a senior engineer in a Beijing auto-parts factory, says he wasn't upset when his only child, a daughter, was born, but "my mother did not like it." That...
Ever since the Japanese introduced the kudzu vine to America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the broad-leafed creeper has been a much maligned nuisance. Like some omnivorous green space monster, the irrepressible plant has spread across the Southeast, smothering everything from telephone poles to abandoned cars...
...violence quickly spread, Defense Minister Moshe Arens barred all 1.7 million Palestinians from entering Israel. Arens had intended to enforce calm and appease public opinion, but he also threw Israel's division along the pre- 1967 borders into sharp relief. Faisal Husseini, a Jerusalem-based Palestinian leader, even welcomed the ban as "the first step toward independence." In Jerusalem, Israel's dream of peaceful coexistence was refuted by the stifling presence of 2,000 police...
...most publicized mission, code-named Operation Green Sweep, 200 soldiers spread into Bureau of Land Management federal conservation land in northern California, seizing around 1000 marijuana plants in 10 days of raids...
While we're all down at Soldiers Field and you all are back across the river studying (or maybe you don't study much since you're so smart already), I'll spread the word to all of the members of the "jock sub-culture" that they may as well put in some more hours in the training room, the weight room, Gordon, Bright or Briggs because once they get back across the river they're doomed to struggle with their academic inferiority. Hollie J. Moore...