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Word: sprees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Huskie Kathy Williams put number seven in the Harvard net, scoring the fourth goal for Northeastern in a minute and 40 seconds. The Huskie scoring spree finally ended at 15:18, with the final score...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Northeastern Shuts Out Crimson, 8-0, Scoring Six Goals in Third Period | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

...mighty new weapon-the lawsuit -is being rolled out in the economic power struggle between the U.S. and Iran, and the battling is shaking the money markets. Lawyers last week went on a suing spree, grabbing up Iranian corporate and industrial assets not only in the U.S. but also in West Germany. The free-for-all rush after Iranian booty put investors and businessmen on edge, rattled money markets and in the process helped send the dollar into a renewed slide while pushing gold back up to more than $400 per oz. In the scramble, banks even wound up suing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bankers Grab the Booty | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...more The Bloody Red Baron was rolling up the score 80 men died trying to end that spree Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany...

Author: By Eric B. Fried and Susie Spring, S | Title: Hark! the Herald Cashiers Ring | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

When Miami police led Clarence Mullins off to jail in the morning darkness one day last week, they ended a crime spree that may put Mullins, 26, in the record book. It all began, according to the police, when Mullins stopped a teen-age driver in downtown Miami, relieved him of his valuables, stuffed him in the car trunk and headed for Jackson Memorial Hospital. There he grabbed a nurse and pushed her into the car, but the woman slid out the opposite door before he could drive off. By now police radios all over the city were crackling: Look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...sheer scariness of it all was what set off the really huge midweek selling spree on the Big Board. The dumping spread, irrationally, not only to the commodities and futures markets but also to the international currency centers. Out of fear and uncertainty, traders who had been buying dollars on Monday on the logical theory that the Fed's moves would strengthen the greenback abruptly began selling them again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Squeeze of '79 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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