Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They came in from Amherst Saturday hell-bent on victory, the UMass Minutemen did, laughing and sneering at the undersized, underdog Crimson. But when the time came to march back from the Harvard Stadium turf to Dillon Field House, the visitors walked in a dazed retreat, as the Harvard football team had outmuscled, outhustled and basically outclassed the Minutemen by a score...
Cynthia Crowley, a freshman from Wayland, turned in some fine stickwork for the Crimson from her left wing position, and sophomore ice hockey stand-out Tania Huber effectively brought her stickhandling skills over the turf, thwarted many Southern attackers...
Surf 'n' Turf. A luscious combination of the best the sea and land have to offer...
...names and faces involved in the Mass primary today, the ones you're sure to recognize both belong to Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, Congressional representative of the 8th Disctict (including his home turf, Cambridge) and Speaker of the House. Tip has been pretty busy this year in Washington, what with restoring Uncle Joe Cannon's post to its former grandeur and fending off charges of involvement in Koreagate. You've seen his, uh, craggy Irish face splashed all over newspapers and magazines...
Jimmy and Tony Pro had long been buddies, but they almost came to blows in July 1967, when both were serving time in Lewisburg, Tony Pro for extortion. A fellow convict told Brill that the two argued over how to divide up Teamster turf, and Hoffa made it clear that he would give no help to Tony Pro. "Tony was explaining to Jimmy how he was going to get right back into things in New Jersey," recalled the convict. "Well, Jimmy exploded at him. 'Look,' he said, 'when you get out, you guys are going to have...