Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitors--whom Harvard trounced, 3-0, on their home turf last year--the victory touched off a major celebration...
...neither rain nor turf ultimately prevented the Harvard women's field hockey team from winning its first game of the season. The Northeastern Huskies took care of that...
...great disruption: the inner-city whites, many of Irish or Italian descent, resented what they viewed as upper- class suburban values imposed on them. Black children were unprepared for the surge in hostility, and the schools were turned into fortresses. As Lukas dramatically illustrates, small pieces of neighborhood turf became battlefields, while children's chances for self-improvement slipped away. The travail of Boston's leaders was amply reported at the time, but Lukas' account focuses on the impoverished participants in the social experiment, black and white...
...more conventional turf, the old formats are at least being enlivened this fall by new settings. Following the lead of NBC's hit Miami Vice, a number of action shows have gone on location to spice their tales with big-city ambience. Chicago is the locale for ABC's Lady Blue, a hard-edged cop show about a female homicide detective who shoots first and asks questions later, a sort of Dirty Harriet. Red-haired Jamie Rose wields her .357 magnum like a pro, and Danny Aiello is fine as her exasperated boss. The series is scheduled to be replaced...
...years ago in New Haven, Conn., the Yale football team ended the worst campaign in its 113-year history as the Elis slumped off the Yale Bowl turf--after a 16-7 defeat by Harvard--losers for the ninth time in 10 Saturdays...