Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kaleidoscopic Christmas displays began to blink on at stores along the main streets of the nation's cities last week, the mood of the merchants was anything but festive. Downtown retailers are hoping for a holiday buying spree to offset a year of laggard sales and inflation-riddled earnings. Economists are hoping for consumer spending to be a strong force in revitalizing the economy. The prospects for the near future are not promising...
Gallic Courtesy. The spree began in December 1969, when the working-class young men, all between the ages of 19 and 27, gathered in a local bar to drink and grumble about their poor-paying jobs. "What'll we do tonight?" one of them asked. "Let's rob a bank," another answered...
...this country are now in jail, I didn't mind it at all." For Dewi Sukarno, 30, widow of the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, it was a helping hand at the pot-au-feu from Public Relations Man Jean-Claude Dauzonne in Paris. On a shopping spree in Rome, Dutch Actress Talitha Pol was glad to lean on the arm-not to mention the banknotes presumably stuffed in the shoulder bag-of Husband Eugene Paul Getty, son of the oil billionaire...
...book, Commerce and Coexistence. The book, which has also appeared in West Germany and the U.S., is a comprehensive if sometimes overly optimistic guide to the promises of East-West trade. Its publication could hardly have been better timed. The Soviet Union is in the midst of a shopping spree that may be unparalleled in history...
...another incident, a black guard was shot to death when a black sailor went on a wild shooting spree at Camp Tien Sha near Danang. That episode followed rioting along China Beach by black Marines and sailors brandishing M-16 rifles...