Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Coast action. I was on my own, meeting people on Telegraph Avenue and going to wild Berkeley bashes and digging the time away, but despite my dreams and my intentions, I soon realized that I was all partied out. This was not Cambridge, this wasn't my home turf, and my doubts were reinforced nightly when I made collect phone calls back to Sue in Boston and she told me I miss you, come back home. Money was getting low, jobs were scarce, and I was lonely. I promised Sue I'd take the next bus back east...
...sport of kings this is not. Instead of the turf at Churchill Downs, the course is in the asphalt parking lot outside Brennan's bar at Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles. And despite his come-from-behind victory, Motown Missile has yet to prove that he deserves to be classed with the legendary Sea Biscuit, a sprinter without peer and the all-time mock thoroughbred turtle...
...political gathering held on the home turf of Uganda's dictatorial President Idi Amin Dada was bound to be a bit bizarre. The twelfth annual summit of the Organization of African Unity in Kampala last week easily lived up-or down-to expectations. "I will not embarrass you because of the confidence you have shown in me," "Big Daddy" promised as he became OAU chairman for the coming year. Nonetheless President Amin-who had generously promoted himself to the rank of field marshal for the occasion-proceeded to put on a divertissement that could not fail to embarrass delegates...
...spread out over and around pockets of brush and canyons in which the animals feel right at home. For a while, the city tried helicoptering troublemaking coyotes to the outlying Angeles National Forest, but it gave up because the beasts would simply trot 100 miles back to their home turf in town. Now, when there is a specific complaint against a coyote, wildlife authorities shoot it on the spot-if they can track it down, that...
...Percy says Peirce has been completely overlooked by modern linguists. His ignorance of the literature hurts him here--Henning Andersen, for one, has used a Peircean model of language acquisition in his work in generative phonology--and it hurts him everywhere he tries to argue on the linguists own turf. Percy adopts the jargon of the professionals and scholars without the sense, and ultimately he can only argue from his own intuitions about language...