Word: slews
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...autopsy no ruptures or lesions could be found. "We're really at a bit of a loss now," said Veterinarian Helen Acland. The brain tissue will not be fully examined for ten days; complete toxicity tests might take a month. The dark carcass of the son of Seattle Slew was sent to Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., for more than the traditional burying of the head, heart and hoofs. As Claiborne's only Derby winner, he rated burial in an oaken casket with a silver lid lined in the farm's yellow racing color...
...found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small and wan, dappled old Woody said with the brave gleam of all winning trainers, "I thought he was a cinch, anyway." A son of 1977 Triple Crown Champion Seattle Slew, Swale favors that great dark...
Richardson dismisses the latest slew of Shamie challenges as a "gimmick," and says he has no intention of altering his campaign to account for the flame-throwing Republican...
Alvarado claimed that he had borrowed money from Chin between 1976 and 1983 to meet personal "financial obligations." But within a week he had disclosed a slew of additional loans: a total of $63,000 from a dozen other people, eight of whom were working for him at the time. The city's department of investigation declared that Alvarado had "demonstrated a disturbing disregard for many rules governing professional and personal conduct." Last week the board of education suspended the chancellor from his $95,000-a-year job pending an administrative hearing...
Compounding the problems on offense, a slew of freshmen will have to fight it out for second home, where they'll find the ghost of All-American Francesca DenHartog, who together with Finn holds every Crimson record...