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sinecure

paid work requiring little effort

Sightings:

A Word for the Wise

Freddy needs a job — or a lady of means

Throw the bums out — an argument for term limits

Ducking one's duties in "the superiour ranks of life"

California candidate promises to work for a living

Banishment for a boat rocker

How to ride shotgun. (There are rules, you know.)

A pope who couldn't say no to his relatives

"Face the music or take water" — the story of a Nevada lawman

Obit for a Commissioner. (Recommendation: browse around this
Great Eastern site — Best Viewed with "a few drinks")

And when you have the meaning memorized, try these plays on words:
Anagrams from a psychadelic community
Gertrude Stein's Objects to read aloud and charming very charming

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