Word: spreeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1900. Examinations were over, and the atmosphere was tense . . . My classmates always looked upon me as a grind. They were continually calling for me to go out on a spree, but I have never touched a drop in my life...
...high above the average of the other eleven months. Reason: June is the last month of the fiscal year, and unspent money on hand at year's end might give Congress the idea that the agencies could get along on less. Last week, with the year-end spree in full swing, Government-spending was costing each American family some $37.50 a week in taxes, as compared to a weekly average of $28.80 for the other months of the year...
...aggressive admissions policy like those adopted by the Ivy "Big Four" will inevitably lead some people to regard the program as a monstrous athletic-purhasing spree. In their joint statement, however, the presidents of Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. "In order to prevent misunderstanding and misrepresentation," made it quite clear that they are not giving athletic scholarships...
Almost 500 sweating, singing, backslapping '27 grads, streaks of silver in their hair, spring in their step, and wives and families in their train will officially begin their 25th reunion weeklong spree at the University today...
...land, in the air and on the spree, it was a week of disasters for Brazil. Twenty miles north of Rio, a truck crammed with 86 southbound migrants missed a curve, plunged into a ravine, killed the driver and seven passengers. At Teresópolis, northeast of Rio, rain-loosened mud and rocks thundered down a hill, burying a freight train, a warehouse and four railhands. A Panair do Brasil DC-3 undershot the Uberlãndia airfield, 500 miles north of Rio, and crashed into a clump of trees, killing nine and injuring 23. But of all the week...