Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visitors scored once in the second, then jumped on Dick Manville for two more in the fourth, and finished the job with a four-run spree in the eight. Manville and Bill Judge gave up a total of twelve hits between them, while Manville struck...
...citizens admitted having more than the permitted five packages of 250-odd point-rationed frozen, canned and dried foods. Many of the rest overlooked what every grocer knew: that the previous month's buying spree had loaded many a cupboard full up. Only one person in a thousand could remember how much coffee he had three months earlier or think of any reason at all why OPA now should hand out a maddening questionnaire with a naive entry: "Pounds of coffee owned on November 28, 1942, minus 1 pound for each person included in this Declaration whose...
...policyholders were often given digitalis, a drug which changes normal heart action. Then they would be told to go on a spree, drink lots of coffee, run to a doctor's office (upstairs if possible) for an electrocardiographic heart examination. Such going-on often made their heart action temporarily quite erratic. Heart attacks were often faked in public places, and the "victim" taken to a hospital. Both specialists and insurance doctors were fooled...
...Government backs up this buying spree with one stock answer: the unprecedented food requirements of the Army, Navy and Lend-Lease. So far so good. But the big trouble is that Government purchasing agents have probably gone beyond all rhyme or reason. Of the mountains of canned goods bought last year, the Government has so far used about one-third-all the rest gathers dust and rust (but no vitamins) in warehouses and quartermaster depots. Moan the canners: now the Government plans to expand buying, thus build stockpiles still higher...
Hyde had the best night of his career, offensively and defensively. Hennessey, although he left much to be desired in guarding Davis, sparked the second half attack, and Torgan matched his offensive spree in dogging Crossin, who seemed...