Word: spree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Andrew DeSilva, a man with a factory in Mexico, or wealthy parents in the Philippines, or a wife and daughter--the ones in the photo he would pass around that he got from who knows where. But by last April, when police say he started a cross-country killing spree that climaxed in the fatal shooting of Versace, all his worlds were collapsing. His last rich guy had dropped him. He was gaining so much weight that few would give him a second look. He might have discovered he had the AIDS virus...
LONDON: Flush from a $2,000 shopping spree, Los Angeles clothes designer Eileen Kadden says she was looking "classy and funky" when a Harrods security guard took offense at her 5'9", 196-pound figure and showed her the door. "It was complete discrimination against larger women," an indignant Kadden told The Times. "I was shocked and mortified." The 48-year-old Kadden, who at the time was sporting brown Lycra leggings and a loose, cactus-embroidered white shirt, dismisses as "fattism" the chic department store's response that her attire violated its strict code against extreme forms of dress...
...isolation, the crime recalls a chilling campfire tale. But it appears to be anything but isolated. It may in fact be just one episode in a real-life horror movie, a cross-country killing spree that has triggered a nationwide manhunt. The police are looking for the man who may be driving that red pickup, a man who has been moving eastward, from San Diego to Minneapolis, Minn., to Chicago and now the New Jersey coast, using a series of stolen vehicles, a man who has been charged thus far with only one crime but about whom Philadelphia FBI spokeswoman...
Yvonne was with the group as they went on what appears to have been a last fling in February and March, touring Sea World, gambling in Las Vegas (they spent $1,900 for the spree, leaving a final tally of $12,183.21 in their meticulously kept books). One of the exit statements posted on the Web last week explained that the last days of touring helped members "re-examine if there's anything that might hold any attraction for any individual...[Those] things...now seem such a waste of time." Soon the time was right: Hale-Bopp was in sight...
When Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker robbed banks during their legendary two-year crime spree in the 1930s, they did so in part because it was easy. America was a more trusting place, and small-town banks offered unprotected targets and quick getaways. Now, 63 years later, a rapidly growing number of criminals appear to have again decided that robbing banks is easy money--against considerable evidence to the contrary...