Word: spread
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...Credit-checking org. 41. __ es Salaam, Tanzania 42. Source of Italian bubbly 45. J. Fred Muggs, for one 47. Finn's transport 51. South Carolina's House voted to remove it 52. Meth. or Luth. 53. Natural emollient 54. Croupier's need 55. Kind of fingerprinting 56. O'Hara spread 57. [see other side] 58. Sloppy place 59. __ drug-makers have agreed to slash prices for Third World countries...
...quite a day when it happened. I remember being at a church which was a few blocks away from the 16th Street Baptist Church, and just being completely shocked by the sound. It was almost like a train coming. Then about an hour later, word started to spread on what had happened. Everybody rushed home to watch television. It was just awful. Then we learned the names of the little girls who had been killed, and everybody knew at least one of them. I knew Denise McNair. She grew up in my neighborhood. Her dad was the photographer...
...long in the anarchic, post-cold war era? American officials hope so, but they aren't betting on it. Now as before, when it comes to proliferation, the U.S. tries to have it both ways. It supports a wide range of arms-control efforts designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons abroad while hanging on tightly to a nuclear capability of its own and sometimes even brandishing it to make a point. This attracts criticism from others, but hypocrisy is par for the course in international relations. And besides, American officials are correct to argue that in this case...
...contrast, China, which did much better than India in several respects, such as the spread of basic education and health care, had the largest famine in recorded history in 1959-62, with a death toll that has been estimated at 30 million. Right now, the three countries with continuing famines are also in the grip of authoritarian and military rule: North Korea, Ethiopia and Sudan...
...19th century, national consciousness spread throughout European societies. In the 20th century, Third World students of Western nationalism returned home to lead national-liberation movements. Meanwhile, the concept of the nation--an ethnic or cultural community--had become linked to that of the state--a purely political organization. No reason exists in logic or experience, however, why sources of identity and authority should coincide, and through most of human history they have...