Word: sprees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...convinced. Sickert’s biographer, Matthew Sturgis, has called Cornwell’s thesis “pure fiction.” He has mustered evidence to show that Sickert was probably in France—far away from the crime scene—during the murder spree...
...convinced. Sickert’s biographer, Matthew Sturgis, has called Cornwell’s thesis “pure fiction.” He has mustered evidence to show that Sickert was probably in France—far away from the crime scene—during the murder spree. The Fogg isn’t taking sides in the quarrel among historians over Jack the Ripper’s identity.“It’s not for us to prove or disprove her theory,” said a spokesman for Harvard University Art Museums, Daron Manoogian...
Getting a small rebate check from the Coop in the mail almost a year later was only a small comfort. Having since learned many other ways to save on textbook and sourcepack costs, I still regret that naive September shopping spree...
...state of denial about the danger of sectarianism. For months, officials and military brass have doggedly maintained that the Shi'ite-on-Sunni sectarian killings were one-offs, unlikely to spread across the community. That posture began to change when Shi'ite mobs went on a murderous spree in Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods after the Feb. 22 bombing of the Shi'ite shrine in Samarra. By the time U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his latest visit to Baghdad last month, the assessment was more realistic. General George Casey, the U.S. commander in Iraq, told Rumsfeld that Shi'ite death...
...exactly disappeared. During the cold months of last winter, both Germany and Britain relied heavily on coal to meet power requirements. And coal remains a key power source in many other countries, including Poland, Israel and Spain. But coal use is on the rise, thanks largely to a building spree of coal-fired plants in China and India. World consumption jumped from 3.5 billion tons to 4.6 billion tons between 1994 and 2004. Part of coal's appeal is relative security of supply. Most natural gas reserves are in the Middle East and Russia; the former is a volatile region...