Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was important news to London women who, heedless of the warning that they must make their present ration coupons last until September, were wearing out shoes faster than ever last week in their biggest shopping spree since 1942. Stores were jammed all day, although most articles were in short supply. So dense were the shopping swarms that it took 20 minutes to move a few blocks on busy Oxford Street...
Harvard's final scoring spree came in the seventh inning and netted the home team three more runs. Wallace drew a pass to open the stanza and went down to second when Arnie Closky walked. Bill Ayres, Crimson right fielder, singled sharply to center to drive in Wallace with the victors' eighth run of the afternoon, sending Closky around to third...
...Spree River and the canals near the university and the palaces of the Kaisers, along whose banks Berliners had once promenaded, now bore a sluggish parade of corpses. Towers of fire surged into the pall of smoke and dust that overhung the dying city. Here & there Berliners risked a dash from their cellars to the bomb craters filled with brackish water. Berlin's water system had gone; thirst was worse than a possible bullet...
...three-week spree cost his paper $2,000 (the Post-Gazette gave the meat to local hospitals). Out of it came a seven-day-wonder front-page series, featuring names & addresses of the local black marketeers...
Gualberto Villarroel, handsome, soldierly President of Bolivia, motored with his family past some hitchhikers, drew up short when a bullet whanged through his car door. Police found the Villarroels unhurt. When the suspected assassins turned out to be workers on a spree, they were released with a practical Latin explanation: "No connection with politics. Just drunks...