Word: spread
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...shock waves quickly spread from the Palace of Congresses through the Soviet Union and the world. For Gorbachev, who shook his head in disbelief as his Foreign Minister spoke, it was the darkest hour of his leadership. Not only had he lost one of his closest allies in the Kremlin, but it seemed obvious that he could no longer continue walking a tightrope over the heads of reformist democrats, national separatists and proponents of a law-and-order crackdown; the splits had become too deep and envenomed for that. And Shevardnadze tossed in a warning of what might happen...
...proved unwise. First, a group of youths began to stone the strikebreakers; then the violence escalated. An angry mob of 20,000 -- mostly unemployed young people -- went on a rampage. They ransacked and set fire to the five-star Hotel Merenids, torched limousines, looted boutiques and banks. Soon disturbances spread to several other towns, including the capital, Rabat. Some witnesses reported that police fired submachine guns into crowds. Authorities say five people died; union leaders put the toll at more than...
Once the news spread, colleges took a range of precautions. Dartmouth abruptly put on hold its planned announcement of a $20,000-a-year Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship. Johns Hopkins sought advice from its lawyers. Other institutions were more defiant. The American Council on Education, a lobbying and research organization, told its 1,800 member colleges and universities to ignore the opinion. Declared Florida Atlantic's Catanese: "We are not going to adhere to this directive because we think it is wrong...
...double-page spread on the Civil War, for example, provides a chart of slavery in the U.S. from 1790 to 1860, battle maps, a Mathew (misspelled Matthew in the text) Brady photograph, the Union and Confederate statistics at Gettysburg and graphic breakdowns of population, agriculture, manufacturing and finance in the North and South. An account briefly describes the origins of conflict and carries the war from secession to surrender. Related entries discuss the Reconstruction period and lead on to such topics as colonialism, states' rights, the career of Martin Luther King Jr. and Brown v. Board of Education...
Harvard was out of sync on offense, hovering around the ball and forcing the play into the crowded paint. Hartford, on the other hand, played nearly flawless basketball, committing only 14 turnovers. The Hawks spread their offense out, moving the ball well around the perimeter and making solid entry passes to forwards posting down...