"It could be my tie spreading germs".
That suggests we could have one round of attractive ties spread from Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday, with another round of run of the mill fixtures scheduled for a Challenge Cup weekend later in the summer.
He said the boy, a "bush kid" with little understanding of city institutions, told him he'd been tied spread-eagled and upright and left for two hours, and that when he once asked an officer for a glass of water, the officer urinated in the toilet and made him drink it.
These financial ties have spread prosperity, but also mean that when problems hit the global economy, we suffer too.
I reminded myself that these were hardly Bond-villain master criminals; they were unlikely to capture Dave, tie him spread-eagled to a chair and point a laser beam at his crotch in revenge for his uncovering their evil plots.
After catching the frog in nearby trees, tribe members tie it spread-eagle style between two posts, collecting slime from its back and sides with a piece of wood, where it dries.
The meeting's sponsor, an anti-immigrant page called "Secured Borders," was one of hundreds of fake Facebook accounts created by a Russian company with Kremlin ties to spread vitriolic messages on divisive issues.
Drought and heavy rains during harvest time may be the prevailing problems for coffee growers in Ethiopia and other countries; but the lack of an effective treatment for the coffee berry borer is cause for concern, especially given new research findings tying the spread of the beetle to rising temperatures.
Other terrorism experts compared the plan with the attacks two years ago in the Indian city of Mumbai, in which an Islamist terrorist group tied to Pakistan spread panic and tied down police and army units for days, but the official who spoke of plans for small-arms attacks said that comparisons with Mumbai were overdrawn.
This was an effective strategy to weaken ties by spreading fear, anxiety and distrust.
