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Word: sprees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jaded fan hidden back in the smoky blue haze of Madison Square Garden was screaming like a teenager. In the fourth quarter, with teammates feeding him passes until he was arm-weary from shooting, Baylor sank 24 more points to put a rousing finish on the most spectacular scoring spree in pro basketball history. Baylor's 71 points totally eclipsed the N.B.A. record of 64 that he himself had set a year ago. Knick Coach Carl Braun had only one word to describe Baylor: "Fantastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fantastic! | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Saturday: The KINGSTON TRIO will play at the Dillon Gymnasium, beginning at 8:30 p.m. At 9 p.m., a "BIG THREE SPREE" (dance) will start at the Student Center. At midnight, the Triangle Junior will put on a series of skits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVENTS AT PRINCETON | 11/4/1960 | See Source »

...million monthly and receipts down to $9,000,000, Castro has turned to the printing presses. Money in circulation has doubled in 22 months of Castro. The peso, once worth $1, is down to 28? on the realistic black market, and Cubans with savings are on a buying spree to convert their depreciating currency to furniture, jewels, paintings, anything of value. They wonder, though, how long the government will allow them that freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: To the Promised Land | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...phone anything you can talk face to face, don't talk anything you can smile, don't smile anything you can wink, and don't wink anything you can nod." Earl wiped up a $45 million budget surplus, then went on a piratical tax spree. True to Huey's method of giving the people what they wanted while soaking them for it. he expanded welfare programs and at the same time allowed the patronage-hungry legislature to kill off the civil service system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Brother | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...spree was record-breaking enough to move even Olympic Coach Larry Snyder to laconic optimism when he contemplated the coming battle in Rome. Said he: "I'd say we were ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: We're Ready | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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