Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colombia has been cursed by a senseless spree of murder and looting that began with a political assassination in 1948, has since claimed more than 200,000 lives. U.S. Army Special Forces are in Colombia to give advice. Colombia's democratic government is relatively progressive but is less impressive than was the regime of brilliant ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo, who left office...
...cold fog swirled over the River Spree, masking the watchtowers of Berlin's Wall and gathering in bright droplets on the bars of its newly installed steel gates. Suddenly, Communist searchlights poked white fingers into the fog, and the deep-throated barking of the Grenzpolizei's watchdogs echoed off the brick and barbed-wire barrier. A British military policeman scanned the Spree for escaping swimmers, but soon the searchlights flicked off, the dogs quieted, and the only sound was the rhythmic slam of Grepo boots on the cobblestones across the way. "They either got the poor bugger," muttered...
...champagne), nearly 78,000 West Berliners toasted the turn of the year with Red sector relatives. Those fortunate enough to have passes for both New Year's Eve and the day itself were permitted to spend the night in the East, and thus sleep off the loudest, happiest spree the divided city had experienced since the Wall went up 28 months ago. Others, overcome with fatigue and celebration, dashed back to beat the 5 a.m. witching hour-some of them in East German ambulances...
...midyear exams and took off for New York, where he went on a spending spree that included wining and dining Dancer Marilyn Miller and her chorus line, whom he had got to know by standing outside the stage door in Boston with his family's white wolfhound as conversational bait. When considerably more than his year's allowance had gone up in the heady smoke of this lonely freshman debauch, Bucky cabled a rich cousin and was promptly packed off in disgrace to a cotton mill in Quebec. Harvard gave him a second chance, but Bucky...
...laden West Berliners swarmed through the Wall for their first reunions with eastern sector relatives since August 1961. A long row of glowing charcoal braziers warmed the approach to the Oberbaum Bridge, and two brightly lit Christmas trees guarded its western end. On the other side of the River Spree, even the trigger-happy East German Vopos wore grins above their cradled submachine guns...