Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Performed imaginatively on slippery turf in Peking, now primed for domestic tracks ... A favorite of Ford, who may have done him a disservice by slotting him into supposedly nonpartisan CIA post ... Is likely to come under constant crossfire from Congress ... His best-foot-forward performance as G.O.P. national chairman during Watergate period endeared him to party regulars, but his ill-disguised political ambition may repel even more irregulars...
Brown, now 4-0-1, recaptured first place from Harvard by virtue of its 45-23 romp over hapless Cornell. End Bob Farnham eclipsed the Ivy mark for most receptions in a single game with 14 grabs and 186 yards of Ithaca turf. All in all, the Bruins churned out 515 yards in total offense...
Those dreams of Ivy glory that seemed to shatter along with Jim Kubacki's shoulder on the artificial turf of Franklin Field are now residing with Harvard's head football trainer and the number two quarterback...
Home-field advantages are prevalent even in the sport of field hockey, and Wellesley made the most of it. Accustomed to the soft thick turf of their confines, Wellesley compensated for the slowness in stick-handling. Meanwhile, the 'Cliffe had to adjust its attack to a "stop and send" one, and couldn't afford to carry the ball as much...
...adult heroes in the book become weird variants of Groucho Marx, perhaps spawned by Michaels' boyhood watching the Yiddish theater: wise guys who fast-talk on capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...