Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grew out of a temporary group formed just after the Deadwyler incident. It was called TALO, "Temporary Alliance of Local Organizations," and represented a coalition between extreme nationalists; civil rights groups, militant and moderate; and middle-class businessmen. Its original function was to avert another spree of violence which seemed very possible at the time...
...nation that opened its frontiers by violence and the gun, Whitman's sanguinary spree had an unsettling number of precedents, both in fiction and in fact. The imaginary parallels are grisly?and suggestive?enough: from The Sniper, a 1952 movie about a youth who shoots blondes, to The Open Square, a 1962 novel by Ford Clarke, whose protagonist climbs a tower on a Midwestern campus and begins picking people off. (So far as police know, Whitman had neither seen the movie nor read the book.) Even the fiction, however, pales before the fact. There was Scripture-reading Howard Unruh...
What followed was a spending spree -but one plotted with care. Tyonek Business Manager Seraphim Stephan Sr. took a course in tribal-business administration in New Mexico. An outside accounting firm was hired. Carefully investing their fortune, the Indians bought into the Anchorage construction firm that built their new homes, are acquiring an interest in an air-taxi service whose owner flew countless mercy missions for them before prosperity struck...
...industry has been hit with everything but a ten-ton truck. To battle inflation, Lyndon Johnson has told consumers that it is patriotic to be parsimonious, and a lot of people are willing to heed him. When inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead forgo big, postponable purchases-such as cars-to save their declining dollars for necessities. On top of that, 250,000 potential buyers have been shipped to Viet Nam, and Stateside draftees and 1A civilians get 4F ratings from finance companies...
...while, the Mounties said, Gerda was "very actively engaged as a common prostitute" in Montreal and, as such, associated with members of Montreal's underworld. When Gerda's citizenship was finally turned down, she returned to West Germany. But before leaving she went on a buying spree, scattering rubber checks all over Montreal. When they bounced her into jail, Gerda threatened the cops with Sevigny's name, and was free the next...