Word: spreeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million because "lead-time financing has been reduced-notably for spare parts-[some] maintenance support . . . has been eliminated, and items have been removed from grant-aid which countries can now pay for themselves." Ike's military-assistance cut was a real concession to the congressional economy spree and a clear effort to forestall whacks with an even heavier meat...
Wagner robbed a bank in Richmond, III., last August 29, shortly before he enrolled at M.I.T. He was arrested December 8 in Oklahoma City, after having spent all but $4500 of the stolen money in a wild cross-country spree...
...frantic rush to catapult its horse-and-buggy economy into the 20th century, Spain for six years has gone on a Soviet-like factory-building spree. But planning was poor; there was often a lack of raw materials, modern machines and technical know-how to keep the showplace plants running at planned capacity. Power also is short. Spain depends on hydroelectric power for three-quarters of its supply, and last year's drought held output to a low 13.75 billion kwh. Faced with such bottlenecks, the Pegaso factories have turned out only 4,000 heavy-duty trucks since...
...shots by Bob Treisman, who scored 15 points, and some timely jump shots by Artie Kopit, who scored 11, kept Dunster consistently within a point of Eliot, but Joslin's second-half scoring spree of 16 points matched their efforts and opened a four-point gap which a late Dunster rally could not overcome...
...ghoulish affair is inhabited by some appropriately unpleasant characters. The above mentioned hero, Pat Muldoon, is an impecunious Irish immigrant and tree surgeon whose sin consists of selling the last remaining bit of family property--perhaps symbolically, a back alley--and spending the money on a spree. Mr. Barton's performance in the role is a little incoherent, a fact which may be excused on the grounds that the cute little Irishisms and maunderings about the homeland which he is called upon to utter must have proved thoroughly repulsive to an actor of his stature and experience...