Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance. Gambling is her life, she confesses. "Nothing else gives me as much pleasure. I just need one chip to be happy." To turn her luck, the chip-happy harpy latches onto the clerk. They win big and lose big, make love, win again, go on a spending spree to Monte Carlo and try the wheel once more. Of course, the odds are against them...
...nation's third largest variety chain (after F.W. Woolworth and W.T. Grant) has expanded far beyond its old dime-store stage and is, in fact, quite a different creature. This small semantic difference highlights a new philosophy that has set all the variety chains off on their biggest spree of change and expansion...
...PAKISTAN: still tied to the West militarily, but flirting with the Chinese. Last week a Pakistani delegation arrived in Peking for a shopping spree-with the help of a $60 million Chinese loan...
...vast network of roads, thriving new steel and auto industries, all at a cost of giddy inflation and staggering debt. His successor, Jânio Quadros, recognized the dangers, but quit after seven months, leaving the economy at the mercy of Goulart. In a 31-month spending spree, Goulart literally papered the country with money, tripling the amount of currency and raising the cost of living 340%. When the military finally toppled Goulart, the cost of living was on its way to a 144% increase...
...made a bad mistake by trying, and failing, to purge powerful House Speaker John ("Iron Duke") Thompson. He also lost political points by urging that Massachusetts should abolish the death penalty-at a time when several policemen had been shot to death and the Boston strangler continued his murder spree...