Word: spreeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mower scoring spree on penalty shots in the last two minutes of play, though it netted six points, came too late and too little to close...
...point scoring spree that set a new Harvard record was the bright spot of the basketball team's performance in the Waterville, Me., New England College Tournament over the vacation...
...Some tourists look for beautiful vistas and historic sites, while others seek brothels and adventure anywhere they go. These last-named bury themselves in bawdyhouses, which exist here as elsewhere, and think that all Havana is the same as the tiny den to which their desire for a spree led them...
...four months old; Manning does a fair share of the cooking. "I'd like to lead a glamorous life," she says, "but it tires me out." As it is, she scarcely drinks four shots of whisky in a year, and a taxi ride is almost like a spree. She has no jewelry, no furs. She still wears some blouses that she bought in high school. The spice of her life is a window-shopping walk down Fifth Avenue...
...purchases, should they be deemed necessary. Buying could get under way on short notice." The purchases would amount to something like 170 million lbs., only 1½% of the year's total expected output. But it is big enough to raise prices if compressed into a quick buying spree (Benson's statisticians figure that if the Department buys 6% of a commodity during a given marketing period, it will raise prices about...