Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fish pond and equipped it with a pump and lights, and made shelves, telephone stands and an Oriental fruit bowl for Hoover. They repaired his air conditioners, stereo equipment, tape recorders, television sets, electric wiring, lawn mowers and a snow blower. They sodded portions of his yard, installed artificial turf, planted shrubbery, built a deck in the rear of the house, a redwood fence, a flagstone court and sidewalks. They designed and constructed a power-operated window, reset clocks, polished metal, retouched wallpaper, provided firewood and rearranged furniture. "Employees were on call night and day for this work," notes...
...said to have established a close and profitable relationship with the Mob. Reported one black detective to TIME Correspondent John Tompkins: "We recently saw a guy from Mulberry Street [in Manhattan's Little Italy] meeting with Nicky Barnes at a place in The Bronx [on Barnes' turf]. A few years back, Nicky would have had to go downtown to see the Italian." Barnes' 44th birthday party in October 1976 was a tour de force of extravagant self-confidence. As police stakeouts looked on in amazement from across the street, more than 200 members of black organized crime...
...begun planning a special task force to investigate the drug racket in the city. In the past two months, while Barnes was on trial, there have been 18 drug-connected homicides in Harlem. To narcotics agents, that could mean only one thing: the battle for Nicky's lucrative turf has begun...
Thus the miner is distrustful of anything outside the hills, hollows and coal that make up 17's turf-an individual who is suspicious of Government, big corporations, journalists and almost anything urban. The U.M.W. is seen as a family union, always to be believed in and loved. But the union's present national leaders must earn fealty. If they back off from promises, wildcats result, and assertions like that of Mike Adkins, 33, are heard: "Up here, on the creek, nobody tells me when to work and when not to work." But when the leaders demand something...
...program moved through the House relatively intact, thanks to the skillful management of Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill, who assembled an ad hoc energy committee to make sure he had tight control of the bill's fate on his turf. But in the Senate, where the rules of procedure do not permit tight organization as in the House, the plan has come completely unstuck. The dismemberment has been greatly aided by an intense lobbying effort by the oil industry, whose powerful friends include Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee. Generally, the House voted to retain...