Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attracting thousands of families like the Days. In 1964 the American Youth Soccer Organization started in Torrance, Calif, with 100 boys and nine teams. Today the association has 4,100 teams in 14 states and 62,000 kids, including 15,000 girls, booting the checkered, leather balls across the turf. The U.S. Soccer Federation estimates that more than half a million youngsters play organized soccer and projects 3 million...
...people in adult capacities-reading the Epistle and Gospel, acting as ushers, leading the music. In East Los Angeles, priests from Our Lady of Solitude parish celebrate Mass in the area's housing projects for members of barrio gangs who are fearful of crossing another gang's turf to get to church. And not very far away, in Orange County, Father Don Duplessis conducts home Masses once a month for a group of singles who call themselves the Orange County Catholic Alumni Club. "Here you don't feel out of place," said a participant...
...site of the North American Soccer League game was Schaefer Stadium, New England home of American football. The surface was poly-turf, a product of American ingenuity. But the names up in lights last night belonged to Italian star Giorgio Chinaglia and the ageless Pele of Brazil, as the New York Cosmos defeated the Boston Minutemen...
...appeal is powerfully enhanced by his continued successes at the polls. Besides Indiana, he won primaries in Georgia and the District of Columbia last week. He lost in Alabama to George Wallace, partly because he did not try hard for a victory on Wallace's own turf. In fact Carter staffers viewed the defeat as sowing long-term benefits. Explained one of them: "I'm glad we didn't do any better. I didn't want us to rub Wallace's nose in the dirt. We may need him at the convention." Wallace insisted that...
...Kodak, which six days earlier had introduced two instant-picture cameras of its own (TIME, May 3), threatening Polaroid with its first serious competition since Land invented instant photography three decades ago. Though Kodak's entry had long been anticipated, Land viewed it as an illegal incursion on turf that he had carefully cultivated into an $800 million-a-year business-and thousands of Polaroid shareholders agreed. They greeted with prolonged applause and cheers an announcement that Polaroid had sued Kodak in an effort to stop the photographic giant (1975 sales: $5 billion) from moving in on Polaroid...