Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lashing out against their MIT opponents last night on the Engineers' home turf, the Harvard varsity fencers sliced their way to a 17-10 victory, but the Radcliffe varsity was foiled...
...entered their home turf," Gordon Atkinson '77, who coordinated the tutoring program said, "They own the place and we had to prove ourselves. Then they accepted us and really related to us." Most tutors reported establishing good relationships with their tutees. "I have rapport with both my kids," Robert Lindsey '78 said. "There's no resentment of me because I'm a Harvard kid, or because I'm white." Roxbury students interviewed seemed to agree. "It was cool," Leroy Adair said. "My tutor let me read some poetry. He didn't try to teach me nothing I didn't want...
...RACIAL discrimination complaint is hardly the only turf on which Brown-Beasley is waging his fight. Indeed his full-time battle to overturn his dismissal--marked by at times daily distribution of accusatory, informational or questioning letters to members of the administration--has generated additional disputes that have helped stalemate his appeal proceeding. One of the less substantive disagreements, the mini-war of nerves over Harvard's non-recognition of Brown-Beasley's student nominee to the appeal panel, suggests not only the degree of legalism in Brown-Beasley's appeal efforts but also his overwhelming suspicion of Harvard...
ARIZONA. Dennis DeConcini (D) v. Sam Steiger (R): a labor-backed Democrat winning on Barry Goldwater's turf? Could happen...
...power (for the Bachelor of Arts in 1960, the Associate of Arts in 1971 and the Certificate of Advanced Study in 1976), a general expansion of programs in the '60s, and the introduction of Extension alumni to the Commencement parade, the school "has piddled along on its own friendly turf for years," Crooks says...