Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hill's whirlwind shooting spree began when he lofted in a 15-footer to cut Penn's lead to 14-7. Irion then ham-and-egged with an arching hook to make it 14-9 with 11:00 showing in the half...
Their assumed crime was a ten-minute shooting spree in Brownsville, Texas during which one person was killed. Extensive research by Author John D Weaver for his 1970 book, The Brownsville Raid, indicated that the shootings had probably been staged by local white vigilantes who resented the stationing of black troops near the town. Nevertheless, 167 blacks were stripped of their ranks and cashiered without a trial...
...Badlands, she brought an unlikely but saving sympathy to the part of a Midwestern high school girl on an interstate crime spree with her boy friend. Currently, she is raising goose bumps, and even bringing a tear or two, as the put-upon heroine of Carrie, Brian De Palma's nightmare chiller about a young girl with telekinetic powers. For a little change of pace, she shows up as a topless housekeeper and part-time hooker in Welcome to L.A. (TIME, Nov. 22), winning the broadest laughs in a hard-edged social satire directed by Newcomer Alan Rudolph. Says...
...delays in Gilmore's case may transfer to Robert Excel White the lugubrious distinction of becoming the first person executed in the U.S. in nearly a decade. Recently convicted of a triple murder during a shooting spree in Texas, he requested and got an early execution date: Dec. 10. He too wants to die, and because the Texas capital-punishment statute was one of three specifically upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last July, there are few court maneuvers open to any legal opponents of the death penalty. White may pursue his execution even more splashily than Gilmore...
...more days, storekeepers and their customers will begin the annual countdown of the number of shopping days left before Christmas. Counting along with them this year will be worried economists, who will be watching to see if consumers go on a buying spree that might lift the economy out of its doldrums. If that does not happen, President-elect Jimmy Carter is almost certain to recommend that Congress do the job instead by enacting a temporary tax cut of $10 billion to $15 billion-probably in the form of rebates to individuals on their 1976 taxes...