Word: turf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scheduled. The infield shimmers with color, a kaleidoscope of uniforms and warmup suits. One thousand college and high school athletes jog slowly back and forth, stretch and massage tight muscles, crouch in imaginary starting blocks, huddle with coaches for last-minute strategy sessions, or loll on the synthetic green turf, sipping cocoa and waiting. Susan White, a 19-year-old hurdler from the University of Maryland, surveys the scene. There is a trace of awe in her voice: "When I was in high school, I never dreamed of competing in a national meet. People are finally accepting us as athletes...
...Washington money man met the New York artist on neutral turf last week-and at least one of them came away entranced. Says Sculptor Louise Nevelson of Federal Reserve Chief G. William Miller: "I found him gracious and good to look at-and that never hurts." The setting was Brown University, where Miller and Nevelson were awarded honorary degrees. During the academic procession, Nevelson, whose sable collar and cuffs peeked out from her academic robe, drew curious glances and cheers from onlookers. "I al ways dress this way," she reassured the crowd. The outfit, explained Nevelson, is just...
...elegant writers about food, she has compiled loving evocations of great restaurants, memorable meals and, particularly, the briny-fresh seafood: sardines, sea urchins and shrimps that pass in mighty shoals each night through the city's venerable fish market. The author is also a shrewd observer of the turf, from the garish 1,000-year-old Canebière, the broad boulevard known to generations of English-speaking sailors as the "Can o' Beer," to the Old Port and Notre Dame de la Garde, "the Old Gold Lady up on the hill." Fisher is at her wisest...
...along, however, most students realized that the final decision lay with the Faculty--a group that is, after all, Rosovsky's home turf. There was still a degree of opposition: several professors objected to the Core as an uncalled-for intrusion on academic freedom, or as an unrealistic attempt to teach students a little bit of everything. Some others felt that their disciplines had been left out in the calculation of requirements. Dissatisfaction ran especially high in the natural sciences; professors in the Division of Applied Sciences, for instance, voted 23-3 against the Core proposal in a straw vote...
...play is less polemical than comedic. It begins .with a family confab in Lady Britomart Undershaft's London town house. Long estranged from Andrew, the haughty lady (Betty Leighton) knows her select social turf, but that's all. Daughter Sarah (Janet Barkhouse) is enamored of a bean-brained fop (Briain Pet-chey) and Barbara is in love with Adolphus Cusins (Tom Kneebone), an impecunious teacher of Greek...