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The brutal culling of masked palm civets from Guangdong wildlife markets and farms that commenced last week has only exacerbated the sense that matters had been spiraling out of control.

From Time Magazine Archive

FOR many weeks the production of Ardan warships and missiles had been spiraling upward.

From Masters of Space by Berry, Robert Lee