Word: slew
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Smithsonian. It is not easy. As a for-profit enterprise, Geo finds it must charge subscribers $3 a copy, vs. National Geographic's per-issue price of 790. Says Geo Editor in Chief Harold Kaplan of his nonprofit competitors: "They cover the same ground we do, sell a slew of ads, but pay no taxes. It's not a fair shake." Observes New Yorker President George Green: "Some of these [nonprofit] magazines are marketing themselves as advertising vehicles, rather than as sidelines of organizations. Dial was developed solely to sell advertising...
Harvard's defeat was one dark note in a day that saw the U.S. Olympic squad, entered as the Charles River Rowing Association and coached by Crimson mentor Harry Parker, capture the Grand Challenge Cup, and a slew of other American boats win their events...
...Vasquez, jockey of the Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk; Angel Cordero Jr., a two-time Derby winner who rode Codex; and Jorge Velasquez, Colonel Moran's rider in last week's Preakness. Also implicated by Amy were Jean Cruguet, jockey for 1977 Triple Crown Winner Seattle Slew; Braulio Baeza; and Eddie Belmonte...
...Kentucky Derby was a handicapper's nightmare. After the past three years of supercolts and solid favorites, bookmakers and bettors were forced to sort through a bewildering field of sometime winners, oftentime also-rans and even a filly. Not only was there no 1980 equivalent of Seattle Slew, Affirmed or Spectacular Bid among the current crop of three-year-olds, there was not even an Honest Pleasure around to make things interesting...
...Cubans happily surrounded Felix with two 6-ft. 11-in. mates and a slew of other flag poles hovering around 6-ft. 6-in. They weren't skinny either; the first time I saw them, I thought we were playing a bunch of shotputters...