Word: turf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though most voters have the impression that a new President inherits a virtually empty Executive Mansion, hundreds of specialists remain, no matter what the Administration. For years Williams and his six-man detail have sown the turf, sprayed the elms and broadcast electronic squawks through a loudspeaker system to keep off the starlings and sparrows. The gardeners and more than 300 other permanent White House staff members-from Steve Martini, the executive barber since 1952, to White House Upholsterer Larry Arata-are likely to be staying on after...
Losing its speed advantage to injuries and a slippery turf, the Crimson fell two goals behind at the half. Army center forward Bob Behncke made both scores unassisted. On the first, he simply penetrated Harvard's defense and booted the ball past goalie Locksley. A Crimson infraction in the penalty area gave Behncke a free kick, which he converted for the second goal...
Harvard's undefeated football machine, doing almost everything right for the first time this season, stomped a careless Dartmouth squad into the Soldiers Field turf, 22-7, last Saturday, and established itself as a definite contender for the Ivy League crown...
...seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head of the Bonanno family began with an ambush in January 1966 outside the home of Joe's uncle in Brooklyn, and mob-style executions have accounted for at least seven since then...
...slippery astro-turf is an unknown factor that will hinder passing coordination between the offense and the defense and may turn the game into a slipshod affair where freak goals make the difference...