Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Call them the L.A. Raiders of the Ivy League, the only team that travels to its home games. Because while Columbia renovated Baker field, the closest thing the Lions will have to actual home turf will be the hard green carpet of Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Columbia students will have to leave the state to see their own Homecoming...
...complex was in full use all year in both modes--for basketball and other court sports, and for baseball practice and other turf sports. "Most coaches agree," says Reardon, "that it's a very good Ivy League-type facility...
...witnesses in Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, between halves of the fifth inning of a Yankee-Blue Jay game. Winfield had just finished his warmup tosses when he turned and whipped the ball to a ball boy. It hit the hapless gull, which had been idly perched on the turf. A ball boy came out, shrouded the corpse in a towel and tenderly removed it. For Winfield, who spent the rest of the game ducking balls and junk thrown by jeering fans, it marked the ignominious end to an evening of uneven achievements: one single, one double, one seagull...
...Washington-wise Shultz, an unscarred veteran of Cabinet posts in the Nixon Administration, took over twelve months ago from the self-styled vicar of foreign policy, Alexander Haig, whose petty turf struggles and emotional pronouncements, as well as battles over substantive policy, kept the State Department at the forefront of power but alienated other officials and finally the President. Shultz was hailed as a calm and soothing replacement, a man to whom power flows naturally. Last September he engineered what then seemed the sound plan of trying to bring Jordan into negotiations over the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Soon afterward...
...Japanese are not entirely unhappy about this myth-mongering. It keeps the world at a necessary psychological distance. It also permits a subtle form of cultural intimidation. Mystique has the effect of allowing Japanese business negotiators, for example, to play by Japanese rules, on the turf of Japanese psychology. The Japanese do not like to be understood too easily. It is possible that they do not like to be understood at all. Perhaps they have been studying Stonewall Jackson, who once instructed: "Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy, if possible...