Word: turf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the aircraft, 80% of them opposed. Now he gets 450 letters a week about the SST-and 80% are favorable. A particular target is the plane's most effective opponent, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. Backers have passed out bumper stickers intended to punish Proxmire on his home turf. One urges a boycott of Wisconsin cheese. In a lighter vein, another proclaims...
Labyrinthine Lanes. Territories are staked out like turf in gang wars. Hoodlums have hired out as political killers. Even police dare not venture into many of Calcutta's labyrinthine lanes. On any given day, the newspapers may list half a dozen murders. One of the most vicious was that of Hermanta Basu, 75, a veteran leader of the All-India Forward Bloc, who had his throat cut last month as he was getting into a taxi...
...church's home turf, The Priest's Wife is a minor' variation on a national obsession: the clericalism that many adherents cannot take in a religion they do not want to leave. In the U.S., the film's taste may be suspect, its humor questionable. Its stars, however, remain the screen's greatest sex comedians. Sophia and Marcello have been through half a dozen films together, and perhaps it is unwise for them to attack what is vulnerable in revered institutions. They are becoming one themselves...
...Summerthing" concert series-which last summer brought the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin to Boston-will be forced to find a new concert site this year. No activities will be allowed on the Stadium turf next summer...
Edward S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Affairs, said yesterday, "The Stadium is not closed specifically to Summerthing. It is simply closed to all activities that would use the field itself. The main consideration is that the turf is in terrible shape since Harvard and the Patriots finished their seasons. It is a matter of necessity that the field be resodded...