Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speculative Worries. During the last new-issue spree in 1961, small investors were seized by a mania for almost any company with onics in its name-and thousands were burned when the stock market collapsed in 1962. Many brokers contend that the average caliber of companies bringing out stock this year runs considerably higher. Still, there are worries. In a "thin market," the price of speculative securities can plunge as swiftly as it can rise...
...convulsion was part carnival, part anarchist spree, increasingly spurred on by Communists-but, more than anything, it was a spontaneous spark of national temper. Rebellious students, struggling only two weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum...
Harvard scored the third run of the inning on a fielder's choice. Dick Manchester's long fly to center ended the scoring spree, at least momentarily...
West Germany's problems were largely the result of a spending spree on the part of both consumers and government that sent the cost of living soaring. By clamping down on capital expenditures and tightening money, the government was able to nip inflation-and by the end of 1967, the economy was stabilized. During the first two months of this year, production was up about 5.5%. In March, crude-steel output hit an alltime high of 3.6 million tons. Domestic auto sales have been slower to recover, but carmakers predict an increase of 12% this year. Even the staid...
...freeze to attention any time an upperclassman barges into their room. They live in fear of humorless student commanders, who rule their daily lives. This month two cadets were expelled and one suspended when the cadet brigade commander learned that they had returned to campus after a drinking spree and sprayed each other with a fire extinguisher-a prank that would have drawn little more than tolerant laughs at most other schools. Even so, PMC has turned soft, complains Senior Cadet James W. McConnell, president of the student council. "When we came here as freshmen it was much better...