Press down on the center, spreading the dough, or roll into a 7- or 8-inch circle -- the outer border a little thicker than the inner circle.

CNN: Pizza Dough

In the end, they compromised with one token cupholder--a technical marvel that springs from the center console, spreading its tiny arms.

FORBES: German Touch

Dr. Alasdair Conn, chief of emergency medicine, praised Boston's EMTs for equitably spreading patients across the city and not deluging any trauma center with too many critical patients.

WSJ: At Boston Hospitals, An Ordinary Day Turns to Pandemonium

My brother and I therefore popped the corpse into a "relaxing jar" now there's a euphemism right up there with Orwell's Ministry of Peace that dampened it into pliancy, whereupon it could be pinned to the spreading board, a balsa rectangle with a groove down the center that allowed the wings to be flattened without squashing the thorax and abdomen.

NPR: Excerpt: 'At Large and At Small'

"I think the government is very concerned about the unrest spreading and causing further disruptions, " says Drew Thompson, a China expert at the Nixon Center in Washington DC.

CNN: China grapples with growing labor discontent

Today the Party elite is relatively united at least on policy issues, and the main intra-Party conflict is between the center and the regions, as local officials seek to cover up their misdeeds at the risk of spreading instability.

WSJ: The Urumqi Effect

Already, simply working with conventional weapons, perseverance and ruthless hostility toward the free world, Iran's regime has been spreading huge mischief for years--from the 1983 bombings in Beirut to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina to a meddling hand in murderous attacks clearly aimed at fueling conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.

FORBES: Freedom's Edge