Word: astroturfed
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...Prince Valiant suede tents, "powder-room screens," fiber-glass igloos and a Ko-Z Cat Cottage with pile carpeting, a sun deck, catnip bar and built-in mouse hole. For animals left behind by vacationing owners, pet motels and inns vie to offer such features as wall-to-wall AstroTurf, brass beds, Snoopy linen, piped-in music, color TV, bathrooms, beauty parlors, air conditioning, thrice-daily cookie breaks, and meals cooked to clients' specifications (including kosher diets). If the pet travels with his owners, there are guides listing only hotels and motels that welcome...
...years back, one of those hype artists that linked himself to the great cause of Astroturf dubbed this particular period of sports as the Overlap season. Nowhere does this sports epithet come in more handy than at one of those tailend games when the voice of Phil Rizzutto, By Saam or Jack Brickhouse mysteriously fades into the voice of Don Meredith, Frank Gifford, or Pat Summerall. It's that period when opening football games and even pre-season shinny matches crowd out the boxscores or relegate the baseball standings in losing towns' newspapers to the last page of the sports...
...before anybody starts breaking ground for a new domed stadium, or laying astroturf down on the practice fields, or tearing down the Indoor Athletic Building, perhaps someone should look into the possibility that the present sports facilities are adequate...
...their first contest on Astroturf, the Crimson J.V. booters grappled initially with some difficulties, but eventually managed to settle down and to perform quite well...
...Clune's pretty fast, got good moves, and incredible hands," Sciolla said. "The astroturf works to his advantage--it's so easy to cut on that stuff...