Word: drews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ratings for expensive network specials and sports have also been sinking. The Summer Olympics on NBC drew an average prime-time rating of 17.9, well under the 21.2 promised to advertisers -- and a Bob Beamon long jump away from the 23.2 drawn by ABC for the Summer Games in 1984. NBC, which paid $300 million for the TV rights, will show an unexpected loss because of the compensation time it must give advertisers...
...novel, The Last Hurrah. But Curley's career was as checkered as it was successful. During his 1945 mayoral campaign, Curley was under indictment for mail fraud, based on a $60,000 favor he had done while in Congress. Curley won the election, was convicted of the charges and drew his mayoral salary for five months while in jail. When he was released in 1947, the people of Boston greeted him with a band and motorcade--suitable for the man who said "Politics and holiness are not always synonomous...
...almost 200 years, the North End was the city's commercial center. As Boston became a mercantile power, the city's industries, especially fishing and shipping, clustered around the harbor, and the lure of its economic success drew immigrants from across the globe...
...sample; the glands that produce the hormone shut down when the system is flooded with the synthetic chemical. Apparently Johnson made it to the Games because of a stroke of luck in the Canadian Olympic trials: two of the top three finishers are tested after each event, and Johnson drew the lucky straw that exempted...
...field, the Soviets dazzled and wowed with their daring assortment of triple flips on the vault, the rings, the high bar and the floor. And they also drew appreciative applause for their consistently solid performances, technical superiority and bold originality, outscoring every team on every apparatus. Even the weakest Soviets introduced elements never before seen in Olympic competition. If the all-around did not restrict each team to just three entrants, all six Soviets would have made it to the competition. "They are the absolute masters," conceded Mike Jacki, executive director of the U.S. Gymnastics Federation. "It's like...