Word: turf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard attackman scored a goal until nine minutes into the second half, when Steve Martin slipped behind the cage, took a return pass from Hank Leopold and rammed home a beauty while reeling on the slippery turf, to make it 10-3. If it had not been for the inspired play of midfielder Jamie Egasti (11 of 16 second-half faceoffs), and the late-game sharp-shooting of Mike Faught (four goals, one assist), the legendary Ithacans might have humbled the Crimson even more...
...sojourned in many exotic places and once lived in a Buddhist monastery in Japan, now inhabits Maine and writes cleaner English prose than many a Yankee aspirant. However, his stories are still set, with occasional departures (The Japanese Corpse), in Amsterdam, where his sleuths have taken over the turf once occupied by Nicolas Freeling's late, lamented Inspector Van der Valk. Van de Wetering's latest Dutch treat, starring the familiar trio of Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier and their commissaris, is cerebral, comradely and sensual, within the generous Hollander dollops that make KLM a perennially popular airline...
...hard for the dangling carrot in front of you, all you'll do is spend your energy too fast and when it comes time to get the carrot, you're not in the position to enjoy it or ever make the effort..." he sighed, dripping sweat on the turf, and looking around anxiously...
Despite the double preparation of playing Tuesday night's Mass Maritime game under identical conditions (e.g. under the lights and on astro-turf) and eating Saturday afternoon's salami lunch at First's house, the Crimson was a little tight when they took to the turf Saturday night at historic Franklin Field...
...come home with the Boston Symphony Orchestra was for so long the biggest dream of my life," says Japanese-born Seiji Ozawa. On home turf at last with the orchestra, Maestro Ozawa enlivened the concert tour by ordering up a traditional, all-forks-barred banquet and decreeing: "Anyone who refuses to wear a kimono will not be invited." Delightedly, the eminent musicians swapped tails for robes. Then, they watched wide-eyed as their kinetic conductor swatted open a keg of sake with a lusty downbeat from a hammer. When the festivities were over, one veteran B.S.O. member opined: "We didn...