Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of the sponsoring Fédération Internationale de Football Association since 1913, was eliminated late in 1976. But as this week's opening ceremonies loomed, and some 20,000 soccer fanatics and journalists (4,000 will cover the event) began arriving in Buenos Aires, World Cup fever reached its quadrennial pitch...
...West Germany, home of the defending World Cup champions, one of the most popular songs on the hit parade is a ditty called Buenos Días, Argentina. It features the 22 members of the German national team themselves, and despite the fact that it is, well, awful, the record is expected to sell a million copies by kickoff time. Some 5,000 German fans had bought tickets for the World Cup event at prices ranging from $200 to $333 per seat, and were cheerfully anteing up as much as $3,000 each for air fare and accommodations besides. German...
...Poland, university students anguished over the fact that their final exams fall exactly in the weeks of the Cup series. State-run retail enterprises took the unusual step of advertising color-TV sets in major newspapers. Price: $520 in hard-to-come-by hard currency, the equivalent of more than three months' wages for the average citizen. The event even moved the political weekly Polityka to a rare spoof on the Communist Manifesto. Cracked an editorial: "The specter of football is haunting Poland...
...fanatically partisan fans of Britain's four national teams (representing England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) have all turned Scottish for a month, since the Highlanders are the only United Kingdom squad in the Cup finals. At Westminster, M.P.s were forced to break with a tradition of holding parliamentary by-elections on Thursdays, when one at Hamilton, near Glasgow, conflicted with World Cup opening ceremonies. Faced with a $2,500 airfare to Argentina, a number of frugal Scottish supporters flew to New York City and hitchhiked south, and at least two made the trip on bicycles...
...that "it seems that there are only eleven important people in the world"-the Brazilian team members. Estimates of the games' cost to Brazil's G.N.P. in lost production ranged up to $2 billion. Auto industry workers were negotiating with manufacturers for afternoons off during the World Cup series, to be made up later...