Word: turf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo's narrow streets natives in flapping galabeyahs jostled Scots in kilts, Egyptian officers in red fezzes elbowed turbaned Sikhs. British officers relaxed at the Turf Club. Last week Wendell Willkie arrived...
...National finals at Forest Hills. One of the entrants, listing his home tennis club as the 36th Armored Regiment, indicated pretty well the real finality of the event. There have been no Davis Cup matches since Sir Norman Brookes took his Australians home to war in 1939. The sacred turf of England's Wimbledon has been torn by bombs and turned into a pasture. The general bleakness this week overtook the West Side Tennis Club's stadium, whose eleven flagpoles used to be none too many to fly the national emblems of its players...
From California came Charles S. (Seabiscuit) Howard's Mioland and William L. Brann's Challedon, who between them have copped over $500,000 of the turf's purses. There was Market Wise, the rags-to-riches son of Broker's Tip, who has put fabulous profits into his owner's pocket. There was Attention, a worthy son of the late, great Equipoise; and young Alsab, who had won more than $100,000 in one year of racing. Never before had a winter classic attracted such an all-star field. It was also an unusually large...
...unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they still say "whitewater bucko"), and the shoptalk of the stock exchange and of the turf, which significantly share such terms as "sleeper," "tip sheet" and "past performance...
...Remount Service. Others, willing to take a chance and lucky enough to get stall space, had their horses vanned to Mexico's Agua Caliente, 150 miles away, where racing is permitted on Sundays only. But many itinerant horsemen will be compelled to apply to the California Turf Foundation for financial aid in order to pasture their horses until the opening of the East's spring season...