Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Lunacy." As the five victims of the shooting spree convalesced in hospitals, authorities in Puerto Rico and on the mainland moved swiftly to prevent further bloodshed and to squelch the Nationalist Party. Soon after the shooting, Commonwealth Governor Luis Munoz Marin was in Washington to express to President Eisenhower the shocked "indignation" of his people for "this savage and unbelievable lunacy." On his return to San Juan, he ordered police to round up leaders of the Nationalists, Communists and other parties of violence...
Snacks has scored 299 points in the Crimson's 15 contests, including a 30 point spree in the Navy game Saturday. He also leads the varsity with 150 rebounds. Supporting him at the other forward will be Bill Dennis with over a 14 point average and 121 rebounds. Captain Ed Krinsky and Ed Condon at the guard posts, and Dick Manning at center will also start for the Crimson...
...Plans for the Central. There was no question about which other carrier they had their hearts set on. In a concentrated buying spree, Young, Kirby and Alleghany Corp. have bought upwards of 300,000 shares of the Central on the open market at a cost of about $6.000,000, are still buying more. Next to the C. & O., which bought another 400,000 shares of the Central last year (and now owns 800,000. more than 12% of the 6,447,410 outstanding), this made the Young group the largest stockholding interest...
...through. The middle class are incapable of fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling ru mors. The happy-go-lucky are whoring and boozing in a last, sordid spree; the eccentrics are staging a comic opera and disguising themselves from death by dressing up as Pierrots, Harlequins, Columbines, clowns. One man is getting by (he hopes) insisting that a cholera epidemic does not exist. Most are being destroyed by their own suspicions, e.g., when Angelo thinks up a plan...
Nepenthe. In Detroit, John Vlaikov, 64, arrested for drunkenness, explained that he seldom drank, but had gone out on a spree after his wife Theresa, 70, came home and announced that she had just bought 35 hats and 40 dresses...