Word: spree
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...point spree by big George Mikan carried the Minneapolis Lakers over a rough fourth quarter last night to top the New York Knicks, 71 to 69, in the fourth game in their best of seven series. Minneapolis leads three games to one. . . . 60,000 fans gave the Milwaukee Braves a roaring reception as they paraded through their new home for the first time...
...Hitchhiker (The Filmakers; RKO Radio) is a crisp little thriller inspired by the real-life story of Billy Cook, who in 1951 killed six people on a transcontinental murder spree. The picture opens with a couple of Mexico-bound vacationing fishermen (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) picking up a hitchhiker (William Talman), who turns out to be an escaped convict and murderer. It ends with the Mexican police closing in on the killer and his intended victims just in the nick of time...
...Detroit, the Red Wings' Gordie Howe (TIME, March 2) went on a scoring spree (two goals, three assists) against the last-place New York Rangers, to run his season total to 90 points (45 goals, 45 assists) and break his own National Hockey League record of 86 points. This week, with seven games to go, Howe scored another goal, leaving him within shooting distance of the record-50-set by Montreal's Maurice Richard in 1944-45. ¶In Cleveland, Rio Grande's Basketballer Bevo Francis sank 54 points against Wilberforce (final score: 109-55), paced...
Playing with a taped right thing, Back did not score until the 7:00 mark. His injury and a rough, alert Crimson defense prevented Beck from staging a scoring display similar to last year's 45-point spree...
...appliance industry is now in the midst of the fiercest selling war since 1940. Price, who came up on the crest of the great postwar buying spree, knows that he still has to pass the tests of dog-eat-dog competition. As Price puts it: "I can turn out to be a success...