Word: turf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whirlaway with the long brown tail, Warren Wright's three-year-old darling of the turf: the 49th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes (a mile and five furlongs); by ten lengths over Hal Price Headley's Alaking, 16 lengths over William Boeing's Time Counts, 24 lengths over William du Font's Fairymant; before 27,000 racing fans; at New York's Belmont Park. It was his 20th victory in 35 starts. The $23,050 prize money upped Whirly's life earnings to $347,661-less than $100,000 short of Seabiscuit...
...aircraft-engine building and all the other Ford production projects. Last week three-quarters of the steelwork on Willow Run's vast plant (275 acres of floor space) was finished. Bricklaying was well under way, and under gaunt girders workmen were installing machinery. Alongside, workmen were inlaying the turf with the seven great runways of a new airport...
Here the islands were little bunkers, the larger units were fortresses which the Russians call "bins." Some were visible, to draw attack in their direction-into traps of other bins camouflaged with turf. Some served as huge underground tank hangars. From each bin, "drains" were dug-trenches to give egress to woods. Camouflaged tractors stood ready to haul off artillery in case of retreat. The bigger bins bristled with antiaircraft, the smaller were draped with nets and foliage to hide them from the air. Into this system the Russians crowded something like 60 divisions. The Germans went after them with...
...almost exactly the same instant on the sleek turf courts of the Sea Bright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club in New Jersey, two different linesmen, on two different courts, cried "Out!" Both balls were hit on match points. One was struck by Don McNeill, national champion, ranked No. 1 by virtue of his victory in the singles on Forest Hills grass courts last year; the other by Frank Parker, national clay court champion, who has won eight of the nine hard-court tournaments he has played in this year...
...been playing on clay. But his shots had been going badly and his confidence was shaken. He had no alibi last week. Parker, onetime protege of Coach Mercer Beasley, who comes up every year with a "remodeled" forehand, had an alibi. He likes clay better than turf; his mechanical style thrives on a higher bounce than he gets from grass...