Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dr. Philip Showalter Hench, 69, longtime (31 years) chief rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic, who in the late 1940s first used the wonder hormones cortisone and ACTH, administering them to rheumatoid arthritics with such spectacular results (one woman left her hospital bed to go on a shopping spree) that he won the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine, sharing it with two biochemists who had isolated the hormones; of pneumonia and diabetic coma; in Ocho Rios, Jamaica...
Within a half-day drive from Cambridge, ten new chairlifts and as many new T-bars were installed over the summer. Except at the most celebrated areas, life lines last winter were smaller than in the past, and the recent construction spree should be sufficient to meet the anticipated increase in demand...
...friend, a very cool young man named Daniel Conn. A little earlier, Conn had watched a nearby house burn down. Although one of his friends tried to rescue them, three old people were killed in the fire. A little later. Conn sees two friends try to halt a shooting spree by a trio of criminals. His friends are killed. One is a woman he loves...
...marketplace that represents all the problems and potential of the nation's 2,000,000 retailers-and thus is both the prototype and the archetype of the U.S. retail store. In its aisles, and the aisles of all the other stores across the nation, the greatest shopping spree in history took place last year. The U.S. economy had its most prosperous twelve months ever, and the U.S. consumer, who continued spending as if there were no tomorrow, helped considerably to bring about the country's fourth straight year of economic expansion...
Within a half-day drive from Cambridge, ten new chairlifts and as many new T-bars were installed over the summer. Except at the most celebrated areas, life lines last winter were smaller than in the past, and the recent construction spree should be sufficient to meet the anticipated increase in demand...