Word: turfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleven huskies in jerseys of royal blue, members of Moscow's Dynamo Club and soccer champions of All-the-Russias, filed out on the green turf of London's Stamford Bridge Stadium. Each player carried a bunch of red and white carnations, which he presented to his opposite number on Britain's Chelsea Club. The British, in turn, gave the men from Moscow cigar lighters...
...came the first day when 16-year-old Herb Flam (TIME, Aug. 13) began skidding on the smooth turf, shook off his shoes and blasted Argentina's No. 2 player, Heraldo Weiss off the court. There's a coming Davis Cupper, said wise old tongues. Next day, Lieut. Gardnar Mulloy was an upset victim, succumbing to Major Frank Guernsey, a pint-size fighter pilot who prefers golf to tennis...
Hollywood Turf Club...
UNDER SPORTS (Jan. 8) YOU STATE "[WASHINGTON WAS SORELY IRKED] BY THE INCREASE IN WAR-PLANT ABSENTEEISM DURING LOS ANGELES' RECENT HOLLYWOOD PARK MEETING." THIS STATEMENT IS ERRONEOUS AND COMPLETELY INCORRECT. THE OFFICIAL WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION FIGURES FOR THE WAR FACTORIES IN THE VICINITY OF THE HOLLYWOOD TURF CLUB AS WELL AS IN THE GENERAL LOS ANGELES AREA SHOW AN AVERAGE DECREASE IN ABSENTEEISM DURING [THE RACING SEASON] THIS STATEMENT COMING OUT NOW IN TIME COMES LIKE A BOX ON THE EARS TO A SPORT THAT IS ALREADY HOLDING THE BACK OF ITS PANTS FOR HAVING BEEN SO BADLY...
Plough Monday is the first Monday after Twelfth-night (Epiphany). Traditionally, this is the first day of the farmer's year, when the ground has thawed enough for a share to cut cleanly through the turf. The event, the origin of which is obscure, gradually came to be celebrated as a British religious festival. By the 17th Century, observance of the day had ended: instead of going to church the ploughmen celebrated by getting drunk on sack...