Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, there was circumstantial evidence that Fischer had penned the diaries. A companion, Edith Lieblang, had complained to friends that he was working "day and night" on a book about Hitler for Stern. In recent years, friends had noticed Fischer on a spending spree, buying, among other items, a house for 700,000 marks ($287,000) in cash...
Aside from "The Rock" there are five other libraries, including a 14 floor science library. A five year $160 million fundraising drive has also bank-rolled a new construction spree which includes a new sports complex and performing arts center. Brown has also launched a separate major computer expansion project, at an estimated cost of $50-70 million, as part of an effort to educate its students in new technologies...
John Louis Evans was a punk, a classic posturing punk. After his release from an Indiana prison, he and a buddy he met there went on a cross-country crime spree, Jimmy Cagneys writ small in convenience stores. In Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 5, 1977, they held up a pawnshop. As the owner, Edward Nassar, crawled on the floor, his two young daughters watching in horror, Evans shot him in the back, dead...
...their brief attack across Viet Nam's northern border in early 1979, the Chinese have been giving weapons and supplies to the remaining Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Kampuchea. Hanoi, for its part, contends that its troops were sent into Kampuchea partly to end Pol Pot's killing spree and partly to blunt Chinese designs on Viet Nam. Despite Hanoi's intervention in Kampuchea, life in that beleaguered land is clearly better today than during the reign...
...riddled lacrosse squad--five starters have been hobbled with recent injuries--seemed stunned by Pew's first half injury Saturday, and it could only manage a 4-2 halftime lead over a hapless Cornell squad But with just 20 minutes left in the game laxwomen went on a scoring spree, similar to the ones the Crimson had enjoyed earlier this year...