Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Machel concluded his reading of the proclamation by shouting in Portuguese "A luta continual" (The struggle continues). That set off a wild shooting spree of celebration, reported TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, with Frelimo soldiers and police firing Kalashnikov automatic rifles, machine guns and even a few grenade launchers. By a miracle, only two people were accidentally wounded. Caravans of cars drove through the dark wet streets, horns blaring. A few people danced in the roadways, obviously having ignored Machel's repeated denunciations of "demon alcohol...
...warp intervenes between 20th century Paris and Spain. The only swinging Carmen Ordóñez de Rivera, 21, does is from the ropes in her father's bullring. Then her stark beauty sparks into a dazzling smile, she starts to laugh and becomes a kid on a spree. Normally, Carmen, the elder daughter of one of Spain's greatest matadors, Antonio Ordóñez, is as poised as an infanta. Descended on both sides from bullfighters, she is an elegant young woman with a simpler joie de vivre than her contemporaries in such racy cities...
...area," notes a Western diplomat in Tehran. With oil profits exceeding $56 billion last year, the nations of the Gulf have plunged into what may well become the most expensive and competitive arms race in history. In the past two years, Iran has gone on such an arms-buying spree that it has spent $7.6 billion in the U.S. alone acquiring one of the world's most modern arsenals. The Shah's air force will soon add the Grumman F-14 Tomcat Mach 2.3 fighter to its fleet of 60 F-5s and 200 F-4 Phantoms (with another...
...buying spree when it obtained Mirages from France; these were the first supersonic warplanes in Latin America, except for Cuba's Soviet-supplied MIGs. For the next five years, the European arms salesmen shuttling across the Atlantic to woo South American customers were virtually unchallenged by U.S. competition. In 1973, after Europe had already sold more than $2 billion in war materiel to Latin America, the Nixon Administration gave in to the pleas of U.S. defense industrialists and ended the embargo...
...team, was the best goalie in the Ontario Hockey Association and the Bruins brought him up. He bombed for two seasons. On the ice, Parent let in an average of 3.67 goals per game in 57 appearances; off the ice, he ravaged his $7,500 annual salary with a spree of high living. In 1967 the embryonic Flyers claimed...