Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, he is not as curmudgeonly as this byplay suggests. In Connecticut, Roth and Bloom regularly see such neighboring friends as Arthur Miller, Richard Widmark and William Styron; London, her turf, involves plenty of evenings with theater and literary people, including Harold Pinter and Lady Antonia Fraser...
...This is our award, and it should be held onour turf," said Ramon S. Jacobson...
...booters, losers to Boston University on the artificial turf of the Terriers' Nickerson Field earlier in the season, rallied from a 1-0 deficit to capture their second-round contest and the New England Regional Championship, 2-1, before an overflow crowd of 3000 fans at Ohiri Field...
Then, with the New England Championship and the right to play Hartwick up for grabs, the booters slipped by Boston University on the grass and freezing water of Ohiri--instead of crossing the Charles to play on the unfriendly artificial turf of the Terriers' Nickerson Field...
...Kansas City have been put in prison since last January. Federal and state investigators are confident that the string of convictions will break down the discipline that the Mafia's commission had enforced. Created in the 1930s after a particularly bloody period of gang warfare, the commission divides turf among families, settles disputes and sanctions the slayings of those who break the rules. It now has several vacancies that may not be easy to fill. "The machinery to resolve those disputes has been wiped out," contends Ronald Goldstock, head of the New York State organized-crime task force...