Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the answer is related to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's $30,000 October shopping spree. In one afternoon Mrs. Onassis spent more than most of the families of Black students here earn in an entire year. If any college can possibly equip a young woman with the skills necessary to earn as much as Jackie Onassis's clothing bill, this is the place. Or so the story goes. Even the illusion of a promise keeps the applications coming...
...Crimson set the league pace in offense, averaging 404 yards per game and 28.5 points. Yale is second in total yardage with 363 yards, while Columbia used its scoring spree against hapless Cornell...
...difficult to prove, and Patty's behavior while on the run-and her recorded statements in jail-poses problems for the defense. What is more, Thomas Dean Matthews, 19, whom Patty and her companions are charged with kidnaping and holding for nearly twelve hours while on a robbery spree in May 1974, has testified that she talked very clearly and proudly about her escapades. Even if argued successfully, a plea of insanity carries a special risk: Patty might be confined to a mental institution until she was judged fit to return to society...
...roadside execution provoked a predictable spree of Moslem revenge. Before long, the road between Tripoli and Zgharta had become a battleground. The private militias of opposing political factions hammered one another with automatic weapons, dynamite, plastique, .50-cal. machine guns and 120-mm. mortars. Newsmen who managed to reach Zgharta reported that some Lebanese army vehicles and internal-security-force Jeeps in the town had their license plates covered with paper or daubed with mud-suggesting that these units were covertly aiding the Christians. As the fighting increased between a reported 3,000-man Moslem force and 2,000 Zghartawis...
While reporting Elton John's Wembley week, TIME Correspondent David De Voss went along with him on a buying spree. Here is his account...