Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophomore Paula Levhin, recently shifted from forward to center-fullback, helps shore up the defense for goalies Lisa Weissman and Irene Kancandis. Fresh-woman Margo McGlade and Vera Fajtova have done the deed at the fullback slots, styming adversary thrusts toward 'Cliffe turf...
Last week in Turf Lodge, a Catholic ghetto of Belfast that is also a bastion of the Irish Republican Army, the women's peace movement suffered its first serious setback. Arriving to address a meeting in protest against the killing of a 13-year-old neighborhood boy by a British soldier's plastic bullet, Williams and Corrigan were shouted down, pummeled by an angry mob and driven to seek sanctuary in a nearby church. While the terrified women were comforted by a priest in the Holy Trinity sacristy, youths smashed their cars...
...flew to the U.S. to appeal for an end to donations to the terrorists -Provisional I.R.A. spokesmen have denounced them as dupes of the British, "misguided" advocates who ignore police and army killings. Both have endured hecklers, obscene letters and death threats scrawled on walls. Then, just after the Turf Lodge meeting opened, word reached the already angry crowd that a British soldier had injured a pregnant woman with a plastic bullet. The eruption, Williams later conceded, was almost inevitable. She told TIME'S Ed Curran: "We had quite a good honeymoon period-better than I expected. Still...
Terrible Pressure. The two women had originally gone to Turf Lodge to condemn British army brutality. "I do not want any army on our streets," Williams told reporters after the mobbing. "These people in Turf Lodge have been under terrible pressure from the British army for the past three weeks." That explanation immediately shook the fragile alliance that Williams and Corrigan had formed with moderate Protestants. Further clarifications, in which the women affirmed their support of the army and Royal Ulster Constabulary as legitimate instruments of law, may cost their movement some Catholic support...
...rain didn't affect the course very much because most of it is laid out on roads, and very little is on turf...