Word: sport
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Despite its earnest rhetoric, most Californians regard the Senate race as little more than an entertaining spectator sport. Their real interest is engaged not by candidates but by a law, the blandly titled Rumford Fairhousing Act. The Act, passed narrowly last year by the legislature, outlaws racial discrimination in public housing and large private apartments. Opponents of the measure have placed on the ballot an initiative constitutional amendment." Proposition 14 which would not only nullify the Rumford Act and other equal housing ordinances, but would also forbid the legislature to pass such laws again. The State Supreme Court...
Archie didn't intend to take a varsity sport in the winter, but he went down to the gym one day just to throw the ball through the ol' hoop a few times. The basketball coach saw him working out and begged him to come out for the team. Well, conscience is Archie's Archilles heel. He went out for the team, and played first-string forward...
Hardly had the rose petals and champagne corks been swept up from the royal wedding of King Constantine and Princess Anne-Marie than the Greeks were back at their favorite political sport of monarchy baiting. The main target was not the popular newlyweds, still off on their island honeymoon, but the bridegroom's pert mother, German-born Queen Frederika, 47, whose good looks and outspoken views have embroiled her in controversy ever since she came to Greece 26 years ago as the bride of the late King Paul...
...volatile leader, like peppery Ramon Magsaysay, who was killed in a plane crash seven years ago. Diosdado (Spanish for "God-given") Macapagal, at 54, is well-meaning but dour, a self-proclaimed "poor boy" from the distant provinces who prefers conservative business suits to the cool, frilly barong tagalog sport shirt favored by Manila sports and Magsaysay...
...population is unemployed, and a third of all Filipinos work only three months a year. Manila's wealthy suburb of Forbes Park glitters with swimming pools, but children starve to death regularly in the shack towns along the Sulu Sea. Daughters of wealthy Manila socialites sport names like "Ting-Ting" and take ballet lessons, while at an annual festival at Obando, childless women perform a rhythmic fertility dance coaxing the saints to help them conceive. Polo is played in Manila, but headhunting is occasionally still the game in the wild, distant mountains of northern Luzon...