Word: spree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Triumphal Return? Though some economists hopefully predicted that Papandreou's spending spree will be covered by rising national income, Greek businessmen were uneasy. When King Paul, siding with the new Premier, agreed to postpone a parliamentary vote of confidence, Karamanlis fumed; he charged that in delaying the early test of strength, the King was submitting to "blackmail" by Papandreou, who implicitly threatened that his defeat might cause political disorder and help the left...
...Democratic Governor Jack M. Campbell: "I hope this takes some of the malice out of people and makes them realize that it is possible to disagree without being disagreeable or hateful." Judge Roy Mayhall, chairman of Alabama's Democratic Party, said: "America has been on a drunken spree of hate, and we in Alabama share the blame." Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon pleaded with U.S. citizens to "pledge ourselves to fight this tendency of hatred and violence." And Dr. James R. Allen, a Baptist minister in Dallas, said from his Thanksgiving Day pulpit that Kennedy's death...
...about 20% of his year's trade-and also serious business to the economy. With the economic recovery now 33 months old, 1963's Christmas sales will be closely watched for signs that the consumer is either stepping up or cutting back on his prolonged spending spree. Partially because the traditional season is 20% shorter this year, and partially because many merchants find it hard to believe that their good luck can continue indefinitely, only 49% of the stores queried last month by the National Retail Merchants Association felt that this year's Christmas sales will exceed...
Still, Liberia has compelling reasons for not wanting to alienate LAMCO. Partly in anticipation of rich revenues from the consortium, President Tubman and his ministers went on a spending and building spree that landed Liberia in bad financial straits last spring. Tubman, 68, had to promise the International Monetary Fund that Liberia would enact fiscal reforms in return for an IMF loan to tide the country over until its profits from LAMCO begin to build up in six or seven years...
That scoring spree in the second half indicated that shooting and passing drills, on which the team spent all of last week's practices, have had their effect on the forwards. Fullbacks Terry Winslow and captain Lou Williams played their usually efficient game, and the halfbacks, particularly Rob Knapp, Lawrie Coburn, and Clapp, performed well in backing up the second half offensive...