Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston College lacrosse team showed up to play the Harvard squad wearing Astro Turf shoes rather than cleats...
...lighting in the cage isn't as good as it is outside, so it's not really possible to get an idea of either the hitting or the pitching. And the artificial turf on which the team has been fielding so far this season gives rather different bounces than the ones the team will face outside on natural turf when it competes in the Greater Boston and Eastern Intercollegiate Leagues...
...Crimson has been practicing on the vast expanse of Astro Turf in Briggs Cage for the past few weeks and has not ventured outdoors...
...recently became the first U.S. pitcher in 25 years to defeat the Cuban national team on its own turf. Now Jim Abbott, 20, who plays for the University of Michigan, has scored another first. Last week Abbott, who was born without a right hand, received the Sullivan Award as outstanding amateur athlete of the year, the only baseball player ever to be so honored in the prize's 58-year history. "They picked the worst athlete up here," said Abbott as he accepted his trophy. "Baseball players usually don't get that much respect." This one deserves...
Certain practical home-turf applications of the kaffiyeh, like wrapping it as a mask around the face during guerrilla actions, are not yet widely attempted Stateside. But Ruether suggests that heavy sales of the scarves, mostly made in Jordan, Syria and the West Bank, could be a small economic boon to the Palestinians. Such social considerations still take a backseat to fashion. "Hey," says Gene Bursage, 19, of Brooklyn, who has worn his scarf every day, and in every temperature, since he bought it last November. "It's a scarf, that's what it is, that...