Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Northeastern's lone goal three minutes into the second period sounded the alarm that woke Harvard from its exam break stupor. The Crimson was down only 40 seconds before Jack Garrity, still riding his goal scoring spree, punched in a rebound off a long shot by defenseman Bob Carr...
...Unhappily, the Texas Devils, as the Mexicans called them, were so blind-crazy for blood that they often made more enemies than they killed. In Mexico City, for instance, when a Mexican made so bold as to murder a Ranger, the victim's friends went on a shooting spree that in one day deposited 80 corpses on the streets of the conquered capital...
...stakes were rising in Ian Smith's daring game against the British. Rhodesians jammed the downtown streets of Salisbury and Bulawayo in a carefree holiday shopping spree, while shopkeepers demonstrated their support of the poker-faced Prime Minister by decorating their windows with his picture, draped in tinsel and purple bunting. But in the rest of Africa, black men were lacing their indignation at Smith's breakaway regime with ugly threats...
According to the consistently accurate Michigan Economic Forecast, un employment will dip from the current 4.3% to below 4% - the level that the President's Council of Economic Advisers regards as full employment. The high-living U.S. consumer shows no sign of ending his five-year shopping spree, is currently spending 950 out of every $1 he earns. So durable is the boom, said the London Economist, that "analysts and businessmen may even stop counting the months...
...seeds of the present crisis go back to the early 1900s, when a young reform-minded President named José Battle y Ordóñez started the country on a spree of welfare-statism. He and his successors set up workmen's compensation, minimum-wage and old-age-pension plans, organized a sprawl of government industries (insurance, electricity, petroleum refining) to cut consumer costs and-in an effort to guarantee democracy-replaced Uruguay's one-man presidency with a nine-man National Council. As benefits piled on benefits, the Council became less a government than a gigantic...