Word: spree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THERE ARE SOME who we've missed in our gift-giving spree...
...Ruger Rimfire rifle, he entered the back sorting room of the 1940s- style office and killed his supervisor and the labor arbitrator who had turned down his appeal for reinstatement. In all, he murdered four and wounded five others, fatally shooting himself in the head. The shooting spree prompted an urgent plea for blood donors throughout metropolitan Detroit...
...think some Dunster activist would stand up and protest this mass killing. But not so. This murderous spree must fall more in line with the house's annual goat-slaughtering ritual...
...tends to mime its discontents by striking sullen poses. But it is not a useful attribute for a maker of sound movies. Neither is Van Sant's disdain for narrative. He got away with Drugstore Cowboy because its band of drugged-out dodoes were engaged in a petty crime spree that almost passed for a plot. But My Own Private Idaho is a different story. Or rather nonstory, in which a pair of homosexual hustlers (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves) search inconclusively for the meaning of their lives. What plot it has is borrowed, improbably, from Henry IV, and whenever...
...race to create vast financial supermarkets, American Express was among the first in line. Backed by a blue-chip image and the clout of its ubiquitous green charge cards, the Manhattan-based conglomerate went on a spending spree in which it acquired brokerage firms, insurance companies and a real estate business in an ambitious bid to offer a grocery list of investment services under one roof...