Word: turfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chiefs and Wolfram. Pursuing an elusive goal-"I'm always satisfied with a photo finish" -he follows a general rule of thumb: three lbs. of weight equals one length in a mile race. From his performance charts (meticulously maintained by a trained, fulltime staff of nine), his own turf experience (he began working at tracks when he was 19) and reliable paddock chatter, Trotter gets the information he needs to assign weights: the ability of the horse to carry weight, the quality of its stable, the canniness of its trainer, the track's condition...
...endless self-dramatization. There are extended comments in the essays on Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake, William Morris and Balzac, but one quickly discovers that these are pseudonyms for William Butler Yeats. Then there is Yeats, the prophet of the Celtic Twilight (the "cultic twalette," Joyce called it), sitting on the turf in Connacht and self-consciously schooling himself to be a poet of the peasants. But as Stephen Spender once noted, the calculated lyricism of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" suggests "the image of a young man reclining on a yellow satin sofa...
...taken from Evan (The Blackboard Jungle) Hunter's novel, A Matter of Conviction, which chronicled some savage, real-life skirmishes in New York's teenage gang warfare. The film is at its best when at its ugliest-picturing punks prowling their tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn "turf" (territory), or an Italian gang stabbing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death, or the grim subway beating of Assistant D.A. Burt Lancaster, or the switchblade threats on his pretty wife. These scenes were excitingly photographed on location in Manhattan's juvenile jungle, but the plot is make-believe from...
Although Administration officials cited one possible conservation plan, they declined to estimate its possible cost. This plan would involve filling the entire area with about eight feet of iron slag, which would solidify and act as a drain for the water. New turf would cover the slag...
When Playwright J. M. Synge toured Ireland's "western world" for the Man chester Guardian, Yeats went along. He filled sketchbook after sketchbook with scenes of Irishmen at race tracks, country fairs and circuses, and in boats, turf bogs and pubs. Foreign artists, especially those from England, rarely were able to paint the Irish without a touch of mockery, as if they were a nation of stock buffoons. Yeats painted them as they were, and the Irish loved...