Word: sprees
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After the carefully organized spree, Mossadeq summoned the Majlis to endorse his policy of all-out nationalization -no strings. Mossadeq uttered a threat: unless a quorum assembled and voted him confidence, he would not be responsible for order. One by one the intimidated parliamentarians filed past the Speaker's desk to drop cards into one of two copper pots. All the 91 cards dropped were white, meaning yes; no one dropped a blue card meaning no. One brave member abstained...
...ashore, Sailor Danielsen lost his sealegs, wavered into trouble. On a spree in London one night, he smashed through a glass door in a salon of the swank Dorchester Hotel, where the Norwegian government in exile was meeting. Later, at the same hotel, he tried acrobatic stunts from the chandeliers. At war's end his disciplinary record was so bad that his father, Admiral Edvard C. Danielsen, tossed him out of the navy...
...They had gone on a spree. This theory grew weaker as the days wore on. MacLean's wife is pregnant; his two sons, aged seven and five, are ill with measles. He was proud of his rambling, wistaria-covered country house in Kent, had just ordered new wallpaper for the nursery...
Play to Win. The White Sox' surprising spree came as no shock to Detroit pitchers who used to burn them in to Richards when he caught for Detroit's 1945 world champions. Catcher Richards used to blister the ball right back if he thought they were not trying hard enough, and he still growls when he thinks of baseball's casual losers: "They blow a game and they're not even mad about it." When the White Sox lose, Freshman Manager Richards implies, someone had better show some indignation...
...Picnickers. The fugitive, dubbed by French newsmen "the Mad Moor," had begun his killing spree on Whitsunday (May 13), when André Souvignon, a young French official, picnic-bound in the family Renault, met him on a twisting mountain road near Ben el Ouidane. Without warning, the killer had stepped from behind a cactus bush, pumped shot after shot into the car, killed Souvignon and his mother, wounded another couple. On the same road, three miles farther on, police found the crumpled, blood-drenched body of a 26-year-old Parisienne named Helene Meunier, who had motorcycled into the hills...