Word: sprees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been too good to last. For a while, after France had seized the initiative in Western Europe by putting forth the Schuman Plan, it had looked as if the volatile French had finally settled down. But last week they went on a political spree again. Even as it was playing host to the Schuman Plan conference, Premier Georges Bidault's eight-month-old government lost a vote of confidence in the Assembly, was forced to resign...
...Americans were simply engaged in history's biggest vacation travel spree. Sixty million U.S. citizens-moved by no stronger stimuli than the slam of the schoolhouse door, the rustle of a travel folder and the feel of the hot summer sun -were going somewhere, many of them half way around the world, before the summer was over...
...last March the Huks went on a village-raiding spree which cost them some of their popular support (TIME, April 10). Said Ronnie Dorsey: "The people began to tell on us ... and soon we found we couldn't go down to the villages without being exposed." In April the Philippine army took charge of the government's anti-Huk campaign. Since then, according to Dorsey's account, the Huks have been constantly on the run.* Sometimes the rebels were without food and water. "The officers got the gravy while the men killed one another over...
...Communist youths' blue shirts dotted every city block in the Russian sector. The kids slept in factories, offices, schools. On the Wulheide, a flat, green plain by the River Spree, 20,000 camped in tents, guarded day & night by People...
Unfinished Business. In Grimsby, England, Arthur Hotham admitted the theft of two diamond rings, explained to police that he had only been trying to raise enough money to complete a four-year, round-the-world drinking spree on which he had already spent his entire $62,000 inheritance...