Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard, 2-1 after three weeks of the season, has only two big worries going into the game. One is playing on artificial turf, found in the Ivies only at Schoelikopf and Penn's Franklin Field. "It's going to be new to us," says Restic. "The cutting, the starting and stopping is all affected by that. We come out of there with possibly more injuries than anywhere else...
...afternoon turned to night on the artificial turf of B.U.'s Nickerson Field, the resurging Crimson squad whittled away any Terrier hopes, using its two first half goals and a stellar second half defensive effort to preserve the oh-so-impressive...
...explain who is doing what to whom, and why, in the four-team limp-off is a mystery even to the participants. When questioned, players squint into the middle distance, managers scuff the artificial turf, and fans in Winnie's, a watering hole on Crescent Street in Montreal, stare mournfully into their Molson's beer. Says St. Louis Manager Whitey Herzog: "It's the craziest race I've ever seen...
...most people, that philosophical distinction is not acutely evident. At times it gets downright muddy: What's wrong with noticing what a girl looks like? You want everybody to be asexual? Confusion increases when one leaves the rarefied turf of Harvard for the fuzzy ground on which the American woman stands. "Oh, sure, women have rights...and I know you're not supposed to say they're not the same...
...communicate. Along with tens of thousands of other computer owners who share that urge, Sir Weej has discovered that he can tap into the outside world with his home machine for more than just a peek at stock quotes and airline schedules or an occasional trespass on the turf of the military-industrial complex. Increasingly, as more and more home terminals are hooked into the telephone system, the lines that connect computers are being used for personal networking, carrying the raw materials of human intercourse: gossip, elephant jokes, pesto recipes and even the murmurings of long-distance seductions...