Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain weakness in the President, and so they are assembling small fiefs around themselves. They agree with his programs-mostly. They want him to succeed-mostly. But they are not certain about him, and so they stand at arm's length, making sure they protect their own turf. A little of the power that Carter surely lost in the Lance affair was gathered in by Bob Byrd...
...competition that attracted me the most," Treacy said yesterday. "The pace is faster here, although the courses tend to be a bit smoother," he added, gazing down at the close-cropped turf of the Franklin Park golf course, where the race had just taken place. "Over there we have to run through farmyards." And this man has run in New York's Van Cortlandt Park...
...defending league co-champions (0-1 Ivies, 1-1 overall) churned through the soggy Providence turf for a methodical 28-10 win over intrastate rival URI. Led by their new and surprisingly impressive quarterback, Mark Whipple, Brown logged touchdowns in each of the four periods en route to a 321-total offense performance...
...Harvard 21, Columbia 7 at Baker "boy-does-it-need-a-paint-job" Field here Saturday afternoon, and if ever a turf was unfit for football, this...
While New West has been floundering for a beachhead-it has sharply increased its proportion of service-oriented features -L.A. has steadily tightened its hold on the turf. Under Editor Geoff Miller it has spiced how-where-what consumerism with monthly contributions by such luminaries as Joyce Haber (The Users), who can be a sharp social observer as well as the town's top gossipist, and acerbic Movie Critic John Barbour-along with some of the shrewdest assessments of food, wine and film of any city magazine...