Word: fieldings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's no better word to describe the Harvard field hockey team in its 2-1 victory over 13th-ranked Penn yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...game that could have been entitled "How to Play Field Hockey the Right Way," the Crimson (2-0 Ivy League, 3-2 overall) utilized precise stickwork, game experience and pseudo-psychic teamwork to defeat the defending Ivy champ Quakers (2-1, 4-1) to take control of the league race...
...Penn is more of a turf team," Co-Captain Char Joslin said. "Their quick passes didn't work out. The field really isn't conducive to that...
...beautiful day for a wedding -- crisp, clear and, for China in midsummer, relatively cool. The latest typhoon's high winds have swept away the air pollution, and under a brilliant blue sky the guests are chatting in the hollow of a terraced field beside a single spindly tree -- symbolic decoration in a country whose scant arable land continues to disappear. Arranged neatly alongside the makeshift altar, the gifts intended for the bride's parents include a new refrigerator, a 24-in. color television set and a jet black Yamaha motorcycle. The presents are ogled, but atop the TV a photograph...
...progress, Zouping represents what can be called an altered sequence of development. Like much of the rest of the country, Zouping is experiencing the telecommunications and electronics revolution before agricultural mechanization. It is possible to stand in a field in Zouping and watch wheat harvested exactly as it was 2,000 years ago, by sickle, and then to look up and see the giant satellite dish that links the town with Beijing's Central Television -- as incongruous a sight as that of Chinese businessmen furiously pedaling their bikes through the capital as they speak on cellular phones...