Word: bout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's latest bout of violence, the worst in seven years, broke out during last month's elections to choose members of the new Parliament. Some 625,000 pupils staged school boycotts, scores were arrested, and newly enfranchised voters showed little interest in the whole proceeding: only 30% of the eligible coloreds and 20% of the eligible Indians bothered to vote. The trouble grew uglier two weeks ago, when South Africa's new constitution went into effect and Prime Minister P. (for Pieter) W. Botha, 68, was chosen as the country's powerful new Executive President...
...Olympic Stadium, hundreds of dancers arrayed themselves before the Pope in the form of a dove. He urged the festive audience, "Have the courage to resist the dealers in deception who make you pay dearly for a moment of 'artificial paradise'-a whiff of smoke, a bout of drinking or drugs...
...back again, for good, in the mid-'70s, after giving himself up to dissipation and one last, long bout with the hard-rock life. The book concludes with a sermon compiled from various of Richard's exhortations: "[God] made Adam and Eve. Not Adam and Steve." And: "Take that Bible out of your trunk, and get up from those soap operas! Stop trying to watch Search for Tomorrow and search your Bible." Richard may not be making rock 'n' roll any more, but it's obvious the fire has not burned...
...aura of proto-professionalism hung over the ring throughout the week. Fighters met the press in postfight interviews attended by their agents. Instead of boasting of their knockout prowess, they projected their income for 1987; rather than discussing Olympic strategy, they talked about how soon a pro title bout could be arranged. And hovering at ringside were boxing promoters from across America, eager to capitalize on the fighters' rise to prominence...
...only one member (a boxer named Zaw Latt), 7,000 pencils scribbled on pads that Zaw Latt would make an interesting feature. When George Vecsey of the New York Times wrote a fine story about what he described as the "Burma team" (the Burma team lost its first bout against Christopher Ossai of Nigeria), a great host of writers (including this one) grimaced and chided themselves for not reaching the Burma team first...