Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acters complete the collection. The Pole salutes the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who perished in the Antarctic. It also celebrates Nabokov's favorite turf: terra incognita. The playwright liked to dream of butterfly-hunting trips to the Caucasus, Mount Elbrus, the Amazon. And he recalled "tingles of delight, of envy, of anguish (when) I watched on the television screen the first floating footsteps of man in the talcum of our satellite and how I despised those who maintained it was not worth all those dollars to walk in the dust of a dead world...
There are fewer tales of infighting and turf wars now than in the Baker days, and decisions come faster. "In the old White House," says a veteran, "people always had an interest in projecting their role in the decision- making process. It was a way of maintaining one's position in power. Under Regan, that is the best way to work your way out of a job." Remarks another aide: "Don watches the way the President is going and moves; Jim Baker might have tried to steer him somewhat...
...Cambridge, the University fights with the Cantabridgians over turf and the fruits of the city...
...House on Mt. Auburn St. for Harvard's Jewish students. But Black students must recognize that such preference for parochial moorings are not rights--requiring inputs by the wider college community for their enjoyment. Thus Mormon and Jewish students wishing to enjoy parochial moorings while trekking Harvard's cosmopolitan turf turn to their respective ethnic communities for the funds and resources to sustain this preference...
...green of a baseball diamond, not the artificial kneetearing, crazy-bounce-inspiring turf of a concrete stadium but the real grass of a real park...