Word: spree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...illegally in Saddam Hussein's hands, could help crack the murky scandal known as Iraqgate that dogged George Bush's final months in office. Questions still swirl around the role that Washington and a number of U.S. companies played in supplying Saddam's $100 billion worldwide military shopping spree that led up to his invasion of Kuwait...
...some were a little fearful, perhaps, that Inside Edge really endorses a spree of misogyny--and that the rest of the world will follow suit. It is by Harvard students, after all, so it must be inspired by brilliance, driven by a grand scheme. But in their enthusiasm for conspiracy theories and their eagerness to point out the threat of the patriarchy, most students haven't examined what the magazine's editors are actually thinking. Are they misogynistic--or just misguided...
...trips to Paris. His main aesthetic guide in collecting was art critic Leo Stein, Gertrude's brother. His intellectual mentor was the educator John Dewey, whose book Democracy and Education formed his ideas about education for "the masses" through art. After 1918, Barnes' acquisitions became obsessive. His biggest spree was in the early '20s, when he went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar market for modern art was low, and Barnes got nearly everything he wanted, including, as he later boasted...
...jungle of our cities, and by the time D- FENS nears home, he has acquired a bazooka. More important, he is no longer the nightmare's victim, but rather its logical extension and principal ogre, the guy the neighbors always describe as "quiet" or "well behaved," after his shooting spree is over...
...market. The duty on alcohol and tobacco, for example, was lifted for individual travelers. "We enjoy drinking wine, but we cannot afford it at British prices," said Barbara Green, the wife of a taxi driver from the British port of Ramsgate whose family went on a cross-Channel shopping spree. Charging down the aisles of a Calais supermarket, the Greens scooped up five crates of beer, five bottles of whiskey and 38 bottles of wine. "These are for our wedding anniversary," she said. With Barbara's mother stocking up on brandy and champagne, the family spent $434, probably less than...