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Word: slews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking better these days, down 40 lbs. thanks to a high-protein diet (this evening's menu: carpaccio, swordfish steak and hot milk for dessert). Her weight, of course, is hardly the only thing that has made her a star of the gossip pages. There were the slew of canceled concert appearances, the reports of erratic behavior, a faltering singing voice and a feud and chilled relations with her half sister Lorna Luft, author of a warts-and-all family memoir. No one ever said being the daughter of Judy Garland (dead of an overdose at age 47) was easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe This Time | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...There have been a slew of threat reports over the past few weeks, mainly Bin Laden-related," an official told the Los Angeles Times. "And then one emerged in the past couple of days that seemed much more credible and specific than all the others." Global cautions to the millions of Americans spread around the globe are issued each time the U.S. does anything that may be deemed offensive to terrorists anywhere, which makes them fairly commonplace: Sunday's was the fifth since October. But senior officials went out of their way to warn the media not to treat this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bin Laden Plotting a Y2K Catastrophe? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Andre Stuckey, the man suspected of committing a slew of Yard burglaries this fall, was arrested this morning in California, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BREAKING NEWS: Stuckey Arrested in California | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

There's a country called Oz. A lot of donors are interested in Oz--it's an economically, linguistically and culturally interesting area. A number of donors all want to donate to the study of Oz. The Department of Oz Studies has an overflowing treasury and a slew of experts teaching...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Learning When To Say 'No' | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...York woman's lawsuit alleges that following an emergency medical phone call, two cops forcibly entered her apartment and beat the occupants, including her mother, siblings and a neighbor; that they called her a slew of names; that they used Mace; that they trashed the apartment; that they tranquilized two dogs, one of which later had to be put down; and that they stole money...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Truth Is Stranger Than... | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

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