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Word: slews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frustrated with the power this "negligible" state has wielded in the past, critics have suggested a slew of reforms, from a national primary to a rotating system of state primaries. With each election year, the people, so convinced of the inadequacies of the Iowa system, seem ever closer to accepting these changes...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Iowa Separates the Wheat From the Chaff | 2/10/1988 | See Source »

Meet an amiable whale named John Madden, who mints money with his wham- bam football commentary and a slew of TV commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page January 11, 1988 | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

NINETEEN--EIGHTY seven is not the international year of the child, but moviemakers obviously aren't aware of this. This year has marked the release of a slew of films that focus on pre-teens, such as My Life as A Dog, Russkies and Big Shots. Now John Boorman, director of The Emerald Forest, gets into the act with his own tale of growing up, the semi-autobiographical film Hope and Glory...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Blitzed Out | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

B.S.O.H member. (loudly interrupting) "Ah, yes, I see what you are saying, and in fact I have found in my experience in writing literature and plays, many of which have garnered me quite a slew of honors, that my symbolic insight--though often intended--sometimes evolves independent of me as an artist. In a way this relates to the experience of artistry as a whole, as I have found in my experience as a well-known director...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Full of It | 10/22/1987 | See Source »

...didn't matter, as usual. The first-period plague hasn't stopped Harvard yet this season. Neither has a slew of injuries or an offensive slump. It looks like nothing short of a natural disaster will halt the crusading Crimson this year...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Men Booters Crush Hawks, 5-1 | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

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