Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Cutter Aleksei Aleksandrov caved in at the sight of the dreaded secret police and surrendered 300,000 rubles in money and furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed by one Leon Voskonian...
...atmosphere in Cuba is just like it was in November 1958, right before Batista fell," reported a traveler from Havana last week. The traveler was only partly right; Fidel Castro is far stronger than Batista. But for the first time last week, the rebellion against Castro spread out to ordinary people and set the island alight with a curious kind of spontaneous, uncoordinated, often futile combustion. So wide and so fast did it spread that the exile leaders plotting against Castro in Miami and Manhattan lagged far behind...
Apparently, the committee had decided to try to attract large audiences when, soon before the program began, it sought first Adlai Stevenson, then Averell Harriman to speak at the close of the Week. But this attempt to spread the interest already inspired in the seminars throughout the entire campus was begun too late, and carried out too haphazardly. Many students who might have attended Harriman's speech if it had been offered early in the week, had lost interest by Sunday, when he gave it. Others who were enthused with Harriman's words had no place to take their kindling...
This indecisive planning cannot be blamed entirely on the planners of Twentieth Century Week--such waverings between over-ambitiousness and over-conservatism are implicit in practically any such undergraduate enterprise. Nor are they fully responsible for the program's failure to attract wide-spread undergraduate interest. For they ran into serious trouble in attempting to raise funds and acquire whole-hearted support from the Harvard administration, causing them to narrow greatly the scope of their plans...
...Eagles spread the good cheer around, with five men breaking into double figures. Jim Hooley led the onslaught with 18 points, followed by Frank Quinn with 17, Bill Donovan and Jerry Power with 16, and Gerry Ward with...