Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown was solidly supported by Jim Fitzsimmons and reserve forward Lou Silver, Fitzsimmons's torrid first-half shooting was instrumental in the Crimson's amassing a 12 point bugle at intermission. Fitzsimmons scored 18 points in the first half on a 9-13 shooting spree (69 per cents. He finished the night with 21 points...
...point last week, Americans were already assured of waking up to an eye-popping pile of packages under their trees. Retailers are reporting sizzling gains in sales that by the end of next week will add up to the biggest Christmas ever. In line with the recent consumer spending spree (TIME, Oct. 23), department-store sales for 1972 are running 9% ahead of those for the previous year, with some large merchants ringing up gains of 13%. Discounting for the 3.4% rise in price tags caused by inflation over the past year, that would mean a real increase in sales...
...Neill said Harvard's offensive line was primarily responsible for the Crimson's fourth quarter scoring spree. "The front line came through with good blocking every time," he said...
Classes started at the end of our orientation. We each selected about ten courses that interested us and began our shopping spree to decide which ones we liked best. As we looked at various classes, we felt sorry for the professors who gave boring lectures. They must have felt so insulted when students leisurely entered and exited during their sales pitches...
...businessmen both displayed a mood of great caution. Consumers saved money at near-record rates, and corporate executives continued or even intensified penny-pinching programs to reduce costs. Today the more important of these groups has come around to all-out optimism; consumers have gone on a spending spree and are plunging into debt at the fastest pace ever to finance it. They have caught up with the bullish projections of economists, while businessmen are still lagging a bit behind...