Word: slews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program's popularity has spawned a slew of Who conventions. A two-day gathering held at Longleat, the Marquess of Bath's stately home in Wiltshire, drew 60,000 fans last Easter. A 20th-anniversary celebration of the series at Chicago's Hyatt Regency O'Hare in November attracted more than 7,000 aficionados. "Chicago has suddenly become the hotbed for Doctor Who, " says Rose Arias, 22, president of the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA), a fan club for the program...
Next week the Horse of the Year will be proclaimed by the Daily Racing Form, the National Turf Writers and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations. It is a three-horse race: the Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Slew O'Gold, the French filly All Along and Devil's Bag. Only Secretariat ever won it at two, when the older candidates were weaker. So some voters may insist on seeing Devil's Bag challenged first. "Some day we're going to have to call on him," says Stephens, "and you'll see a horse...
...this girl." Subsisting on codeine and Seconal, she is nursing an arm slashed in a mugging for $12 and a cheap tape recorder. She is the sole supporter of three children going through various phases of adolescent trauma. A ghostwriter, May writes books to order, bringing glory to a slew of semi-literate literary celebrities in return for modest cash rewards. To keep herself entertained, she intertwines the stories of late family members--Aunt Giselle, Sonya, Uncle Trasker--with the made-to-order material. Bored, poor, overworked--what's a girl to do? Friends have suggestions...
Thus ended the first half of Harvard's 1983 season, five games marked by the fruitless search for a regular quarterback and the weekly lineup shuffles forced by a slew of injuries. Four weeks later, with just one game left on the agenda, the Crimson owns a share of the league lead and an outside shot at an outright title...
...many of the now-graduated athletes achieved outstanding success that there were a slew of candidates for the Athletic Department's end-of-the-year MVI awards. In the end there were four MVPs. Fusco shared the men's award with quarterback and outfielder Don Allard, and Maureen Finn (lacrosse and field hockey) and Francesca DenHartog (lacrosse) both earned the women's award...