Word: turf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stopped to watch the plane come in to land. Tom Newman, 29, turned to his father and said: "Look, he's coming in low. Something is going to happen." Then, suddenly, the plane flopped over on its back and fell with an earth-shaking thud onto the green turf...
When big, rangy, almost coal-black Noor arrived in the U.S. two years ago, most of the cards were stacked against him. The Irish-bred three-year-old had to get used to running on dirt tracks, instead of the springy turf he raced over in England when he finished third in the Epsom Derby. Besides that, the colt had a bad ankle, which kept him on the shelf for months...
Traditionally weak on opposing courts, Princeton has been held back this season, by poor "shooting, a lacklustre defense, and the fact that several football men, notably George Sella, have not yet made a successful transition from turf to floor. Coach Cappy Capon has a short team--Bernia Adams at 6-4 is about his only tall man--which is in the habit of fouling out early, leaving Capon without five capably players...