Word: turf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot of public ground reeks of history like the Cambridge Common. On the very turf where couples romp in the spring, where amateur baseballers and skaters amuse themselves, George Washington took command of the first American army in 1775. But for a few rusty cannon, two monuments, and a plaque, however, the Common is hardly a symbol of patriotism. Yet scholars have tried to build these memorial remains into a glorious tradition which ignores the pageantry of blood and rum spilled on the Common's scraggy swade...
...mobs wreaked their vengeance on the oases of the hated Brit ish wherever they found them. Virtually every bar that catered to Westerners was wrecked. Three British-and American-owned movie theaters were set afire. Barclays Bank and several British-run clothing stores went up in flames. The sacrosanct Turf Club was invaded, its furnishings smashed, its building set afire, its precious liquor spilled. Even famed Shepheard's Hotel was swept up in the holocaust...
...games in the Stadium this year, with the Crimson slightly favored. Not only do both teams sport identical two-and-five records, but both gained one stirring upset victory, and each has beaten a "breather" opponent. An additional leveling factor is the recent rain, which has left the Stadium turf soggy and slow...
...second period and twice in the third, each time in a pile-up after the whistle had blown. Clasby, outstanding performer for the Crimson, was also well worked over by Dartmouth two weeks earlier--once slugged flagrantly and illegally, but several other times simply ground into the turf after a legal tackle...
...result the game bore little relation to orthodox soccer. Neither team could move the ball quickly, and the play tended to stick in the zone it was in because nobody could kick it out. The ball had to be dribbled up the field, and never bounced off the spongy turf at all but sank in, instead. Whenever the ball hit a puddle it would stop, though the player could not. He would overrun it and lose control with a resulting scramble in the puddle...