Word: champion
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...Following his sudden death, this nation's leading civilian politician was hailed as a champion of political freedom...
...perps are subsidiaries of two giant corporations, carelessly dumping poisonous chemicals into a small town's water supply. The victims are kids, dying of leukemia as a result. The plaintiffs are their distraught, financially hard-pressed parents. Their unlikely champion is a lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta), who risks all and finally loses all that he and his partners have gained through the hot, slick pursuit of ambulances, as this case turns into an obsession...
...George Foreman, former heavyweight champion...
...mean, surely you didn't expect a champion headlinemaker like Francis Albert (as he always insisted I call him--or would have, I'm sure, had we ever met) to stop making headlines just because of a minor matter like death. Being dead doesn't mean you can't go right on being controversial. Look at Tom Jefferson, 172 years without a twitch, but he's in hot water. And the FBI hasn't even released his file...
DIED. ARCHIE MOORE, 84, light-heavyweight champion; in San Diego. The only boxer to fight both Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali (he lost both matches), he entertained fans with a fighting style that won him the moniker the Mongoose (see Eulogy...