Word: spree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrest followed a 12-hour crime spree that spanned the Yard. At least three suites in two dorms were robbed, as multiple Yard residents reported seeing the suspected burglar around the Yard Thursday night...
Police hope that the arrest will end a month-long crime spree that has spread fear among first-years in the Yard and raised questions about Harvard's campus security...
Where is all this money coming from? True, we're living in a time of record employment, rising wages, a bloated stock market and a flock of newly hatched dot.com millionaires. But even these indicators of prosperity don't add up to the consumer-spending spree that characterizes the current U.S. economic boom. There's something else...
Here is the way one survivor tells it. When Larry Gene Ashbrook walked into the church sanctuary with his guns--a 9-mm semiautomatic and a .380-cal. one--he paused. He had already started a shooting spree outside that left two dead. But once inside he was approached by one of the teens who had been singing along with a Christian rock 'n' roll praise band. What the youngster offered the black-jacketed killer was heaven, saying, "You need Jesus." Ashbrook, 47, answered, "It's all bulls___, what you believe!" It was only then that he opened...
...rival to current military leader General Wiranto, wields considerable influence among officers on the island. That, together with rising nationalist sentiment against international intervention and the Indonesian government that authorized it - as well as the specter of war crimes tribunals shadowing those officers who helped organize the militias' killing spree ? could leave the peacekeeping force marching straight into a shooting...