Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Those taxes would be very heavy," Taft conceded. Democrats, too, indicated that the U.S. could soon expect a bill to raise this year's taxes. The nation, said Taft, must become a semi-garrison state ; it cannot go on borrowing its way and "enjoying ... a domestic spree...
...some elaborately contrived plotting, the Charles Schnee script has taste enough never to allow the voice of God to be heard on the sound track (though it cannot avoid letting the actors quote Him at second hand). It also sensibly refrains from letting the radio pronouncements touch off a spree of miracles. While trying to pave the way to heaven with good, nonsectarian intentions, it winds up as a naive theological hodgepodge, finally flattens its concept of God into a fuzzy, sentimental pantheism...
...been too good to last. For a while, after France had seized the initiative in Western Europe by putting forth the Schuman Plan, it had looked as if the volatile French had finally settled down. But last week they went on a political spree again. Even as it was playing host to the Schuman Plan conference, Premier Georges Bidault's eight-month-old government lost a vote of confidence in the Assembly, was forced to resign...
...Americans were simply engaged in history's biggest vacation travel spree. Sixty million U.S. citizens-moved by no stronger stimuli than the slam of the schoolhouse door, the rustle of a travel folder and the feel of the hot summer sun -were going somewhere, many of them half way around the world, before the summer was over...
...last March the Huks went on a village-raiding spree which cost them some of their popular support (TIME, April 10). Said Ronnie Dorsey: "The people began to tell on us ... and soon we found we couldn't go down to the villages without being exposed." In April the Philippine army took charge of the government's anti-Huk campaign. Since then, according to Dorsey's account, the Huks have been constantly on the run.* Sometimes the rebels were without food and water. "The officers got the gravy while the men killed one another over...