Word: turf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody got in the act, but the professional beats weren't hard to single cut. The Devils Disciples, blood-brother to the Hells Angels and the fighting arm of Boston hippy-power, had staked out their turf next to their mounts and squatted on the ground shining their Nazi helmets. Up near the Weeks bridge, a semipro combo formed the nucleus for what became an ever increasing circle of sound. There was a full set of skins, bongos, congos, a bass, sax, and crazy flutist...
Iceland, a few generations ago, was hardly more than a storybook land ruled by the Danes-a seafarer's outpost cut adrift from the rest of civilization. Dandelions and buttercups grew on the turf roofs of cottages. Even hens' eggs tasted of fish. The people seemed dour, except when drunk on words or alcohol, and the only way that one could effectively insult a native was to call him a Dane...
...elaborate as the code duello. He plays it cool under the scrutiny of the head-breakers (police) and can find his way to black-and-white parties in Greenwich Village pads. He knows every malodorous inch of the eight-block Harlem area that is the Playboys' turf, and he has earned the nickname "King" by taking over the leadership of the gang from Raven, who had fatally misjudged a leap from one tenement rooftop to another...
...where the debate should begin. At first the delegates grappled with the philosophy behind involuntary conscription, but finding the discussion too amorphous, they moved on to an examination of the conscription mechanism--ranking, 2-S, and the deferment of conscientious objectors. Here the delegates were on their own turf, debating policies with direct impact on their personal lives -- the draft and its relation to the education industry...
...pull Santa Claus unscathed to Christmas through the Harvard hockey team's December schedule. Coach Cooney Weiland has got the strength, no doubt about it, to run with any team in the country; but breaking it in against every one of the equally improved Eastern powerhouses on foreign turf is enough to dim the glow of Rudolph's nose...