Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard joined that crowd last week, after the Federal Reserve Board announced a new anti-inflation program that set off a Wall Street selling spree...
...order to achieve the elevated status of Death Angel, a role that confers a kind of perverse respectability. Each of the neophytes must kill nine men, five women or four children. Murdering the young earns more points because the act requires more "heart." On the eve of the killing spree the loft becomes a staging arena for a combination of horseplay and unfocused hatred: " 'Kill! Kill! Kill!' The chant was low, murmured, sloshing across the room like dirty water in a flooded basement. It came from mechanized mouths below mesmerized eyes, robotlike, hypnotic, uncontrollable...
Still, eliminating the ritual will be difficult even with the best of will. Two years ago, former HEW Secretary Joseph Califano put out a tough warning against an eleventh-hour spree. Later studies showed that 77% of Califano's printing budget for his own Office of the Secretary was spent in, yes, September...
...American World Airways took another step last week toward achieving its long cherished dream of acquiring U.S. domestic routes to tie in with its far-flung foreign network. It disclosed that after a stock-buying spree early last week, it now owns 4,398,500 shares, or 51.4%, of National Airlines, thus beating out two rivals for majority interest in the line. Texas International, a small, aggressive carrier that, like Pan Am, has received preliminary approval to merge with National from the Civil Aeronautics Board, holds about 25% of the stock. Eastern Air Lines has also been trying to gain...
Spencer Davidson's account of the flying chicken spree at Rio Grande, Ohio, is the laughingest story to appear in your pages in all of the 52 years I've been reading TIME...