Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good old days are here again. Thanks to the U.S. currency's continued record-breaking run, delighted Americans have been getting more for their money than in many years. Said New Yorker Joanna Silverblatt, 30, during a shopping spree in Rome: "I feel as though I'm at a candy store. I'm buying much more this year...
Spark's effortless casual linkage of a bad marriage and a shooting spree is not the least of her accomplishments. One of the lasting delights of the book is Spark's almost infallible ear. At a press conference about his wife, a reporter asks Harvey...
...response to this wave of political repression, Aprista bases and militants embarked on a spree of violence which included several organized armed revolts. These revolts were unsuccessful, due to both the vacillation and conflicting advice of the Aprista leadership and the limited size of the PAP's bases. The Trujillo "revolution" of July 1932 is the most famous of these Aprista revolts. During the uprising, a large number of military officers were killed. When the revolt was finally quashed by the military, Aprista rebels were massacred en masse. In 1933 Sanchez Cerro was assassinated by an Aprista fanatic and replaced...
During ten days in September 1976, David Leroy Washington went on a bone-chilling crime spree across Dade County, Fla., that included torture, kidnaping and three murders. After turning himself in, Washington insisted on confessing to all three murders and pleaded guilty. His lawyer, William Tunkey, opposed the guilty pleas. But then, at the special sentence hearing required in capital cases, Tunkey offered no character witnesses, introduced no expert psychiatric evidence and requested no presentence report that might have been used to mitigate the punishment. Washington was condemned to death, and later appealed, arguing that his Sixth Amendment right...
Perhaps the most notable feature of Mitterrand's three years has been the dramatic flip-flop in economic policy: what began as a reflationary spending spree later turned into prolonged austerity. Similar reversals have occurred, though less conspicuously, in many other realms, as the aggressive changes of 1981 and 1982 were revoked or diluted in the face of reality or public reaction. As Culture Minister Jack Lang privately told a Paris publisher, "We had big ideas in the beginning, dreams from all those years in the opposition, but then we were confronted by realities, and we came to understand...