Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach John Harvey said that the "local kids" were a key to last night's win. For McLaughlin, the Garden was old turf. He had played for Everett High School in the old Tech Tourney but had not been able to shine under the lights...
...years ago, Harvard politicos would have hemmed and hawed and clawed at the turf on learning that Fred V. Malek, a reputed former hatchet man for the Nixon White House, was arriving in Cambridge to give an Institute of Politics seminar. Malek served from 1970 through 1972 as an aide to Nixon in charge of personnel management and later moved on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) as deputy director after the Watergate break-in. During this time he organized and ran the Nixon "responsiveness program," which reputedly worked through Federal departments to dole out White House...
Last year the Minutemen had troubles with their playing site, Boston University's Nickerson Field. Such difficulties included player objections to competing on artificial turf, the parking for the games was a couple of blocks away on Commonwealth Avenue, and the stands in poor conditions on one side of the field...
...Most of our players are from England," Minutemen general manager Casey Frankiewicz said yesterday, "and they feel much more comfortable on real grass rather than on astro-turf...
...problems result from the bravado a white student derives from being on what he considers white man's turf. The only solution is to move the school to a neutral location outside South Boston," Pressman said earlier this week...