Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paroled in 1967, he continued, "I went on a robbery spree which netted me an aggregate of 61 years in prison sentences." Twice he escaped-from prisons in Atlanta and Oklahoma City; twice he was recaptured. Finally he was sent to the federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill.., a maximum-security prison known as "the new Alcatraz...
Playing their home opener before a record crowd of 15.316, the Celtics outscored the Lakers, 25-10, in the last seven minutes of the first half and held a 61-40 lead at intermission. Nelson pumped in ten points and Havlicek eight in the scoring spree...
...across the nation took out their anger on the nearest "imperialist" institutions they could find, usually stores, banks and campus buildings. The rioters smashed windows, broke doors and set buildings on fire in an outburst of what counterculture lingo identifies as "trashing" -spontaneous revolutionary vandalism. The bill for that spree is yet to be paid. In Berkeley, a group of 31 merchants this month filed a claim against the city for $170,000 in damages, asserting that police failed to protect their property. The city council refused to pay, and the merchants plan...
Detroit's selling spree. American Motors' Gremlin is in short supply, forcing some customers to wait an extra five weeks for delivery. For the past two months, production of the Vega at Chevy's recently struck Lordstown, Ohio, plant has been at a peak level of 101 cars an hour. Ford's Pinto is the speediest seller of all: 175,000 in the first five months of 1972 v. 131,000 in the same period of 1971. Pinto benefited especially from the introduction early this year of a mini-station wagon that resembles Ford...
...Buying Spree. The U.S. needs to catch up with other non-Communist nations, which find the Soviet Union an expanding and often profitable market. Hoping to modernize outmoded industries, the Russians have bought scores of modern plants and equipment abroad: synthetic-fiber factories from Britain, chemical factories from Japan, and $250 million in equipment from Italy's Fiat for an auto plant, which is now turning out nearly 1,000 cars a day. West Germany last year sold $460 million worth of goods to the Soviets, followed by Japan ($375 million) and Italy and France (each nearly $300 million...