Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity held its own during the final minutes of the contest, although a 9 point scoring spree by Massachusetts substitute Bob Eichorn narrowed the final margin...
...time. Cracked a city-room wit as Sputnik 11 hove into the headlines: "It's the first time a dog story made eight-column streamers on every front page in the country." The press gave full coverage to the challenging aspects of the Russian feat. But, in a spree of Muttnik jokes and doggerel, wry puns and photographic gags, it also served up laughter to a nation big enough to chuckle over a joke on itself...
Wall Street professionals blamed the selling spree on a whole catalogue of uncertainties: worries about the state of the defense program, trouble in the Middle East, fears that the Federal Reserve's tight-money policy might be triggering a recession. "Business is not that bad," said James Crane Kellogg III, chairman of the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange. "As a matter of fact, it's good." The facts showed that business, moving at historically high levels, was indeed far better (see below) than business sentiment. Yet Wall Street, which likes to talk...
...mark its birthday in typical Texas-tall style, the store traveled more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic for foreign help in turning the city into one gigantic promotion spree. Naturally, Neiman's chose France, where the highest fashion comes from−and naturally France was only too glad to help Neiman's, where all good Texas millionaires outfit their wives...
...touch football, a Kirkland squad, capitalizing on a series of interceptions, trounced Adams 62 to 6. The Deacons began their scoring spree in the first moments of the game, when they scored two touchdowns on the first two plays...