Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turf of Brown Stadium this afternoon, Harvard must beat the Bruins. Because if the Crimson loses, all hopes for a bite of the Ivy League pie are baked...
...year with Bunting, and this may be his greatest problem. He made several trips to Scotland Neck, N.C., but the minutely detailed reporting of Midnight is missing in Moonshine. Wilkinson became a part of Wellfleet, and described it with authority. The backwoods of Carolina aren't such comfortable turf for him; no number of summers on the Cape could have prepared him for the people and the culture he found there...
...gritty, wind-torn burg near Palm Springs, Calif., a college student is found in a canyon, burned and shot to death. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sidney Blackpool bridles at taking a case far from his own turf, but he cannot resist the six-figure job promised by the boy's millionaire father, which would allow him to quit the force. As usual, ex-Policeman Joseph Wambaugh keeps the uniforms blue and the humor black. Blackpool has also lost a son, and the key witness is another graying officer, Harry Bright, who now lies in an apparently irreversible coma. Also...
Today, the air above the Stadium turf should be full of bullets--not balloons--as the Ivy League's premier passer, Doug Butler, tries to pierce the Crimson secondary...
Well, almost any capers. The University's finest weren't ready to stop hundreds of Dartmouth 'shmen from swarming onto the turf like so many green-clad cockroaches...