Word: turfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knight was known around Albany as a "gang leader." In the South, this implied nothing about jackets, a "turf," organized warfare or a hierarchical command, but meant simply that he fought hard, drank a lot, carried influence among his male peers in C.M.E. as the best among equals, and weilded genuine authority only over the age-group that rides souped-up bicycles and smokes cigarettes with great flourish. Quick, wild-grinning, tall and made taller by the brush of his untended process, he was working when he could, hustling what he could, living round the circle of his relatives...
...hard to determine exactly what was wrong, but in general the team lacked precision and consistent effort. The slippery field did not help, but even a dry turf would not have made sophomore halfbacks more experienced, quarterback Bill Humenuk more able to move the team, and the pass defense and overall play in the defensive secondary more alert...
...took over a one-horse power company and built it into a nationwide network that has electrified 76% of all Irish farms. The country had no oil and little coal, but Lemass found an inexhaustible source of industrial fuel in its peat bogs, where huge machines now cut turf that a busy, state-owned processing plant turns into inexpensive, slow-burning briquettes. After a long political wrangle, he got Ireland's state-owned airline off the ground, and has watched happily as Aer Lingus' shamrock-painted planes have made it one of the few government airlines to turn...
...wicked, hopeless-and no one could have done more with Bertolt Brecht's lyrics than a singer whose voice combines the chilling qualities of sober screams and drunken laughter. Even now-years past the peak of her career-Lenya's artistic claim frightens other singers off her turf...
...major improvements to the physical plant were made in 1962,. Planning began on the new indoor tennis court facility, which will provide year-round courts for both the varsity and students, and the Stadium received a new turf. Nothing was done about seating in the Stadium, however, and a CRIMSON reports noted that heavy rains before the Penn football game caused him and his date Susan to suffer through the contest with freezing hands and "wet bottoms...