Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Best filly running on turf: Chris Evert...
Lady Cops. Meanwhile, Southern California, historic turf of the private eye, will have two new operatives. On ABC, ex-Cop Harry O (played by former Fugitive David Janssen) will work out of a shack on the beach. In NBC'S The Rockford Files, James Garner will become pretty much of a contemporary embodiment of his old sharp-talking Maverick self...
...lore, he does not brawl his way from one prairie town to the next. His rodeo skills were honed not on a hardscrabble ranch but on a college campus. Even so, almost every time Ferguson grabs a rampant 800-lb. steer by the horns to "bulldog" it to the turf, or smoothly lassoes a speeding calf, he places in the money. So far this year he has already earned more than $50,000, which makes him the biggest winner in the sport. Last week he added another $1,000 while winning the calf roping competition in Coffeyville, Kans...
...stock observations are dissonant, but repeated preconceived notions about subject matter can destroy the value of the kind of writing Hemphill does, and a collection of magazine pieces can make such notions painfully obvious. Hemphill runs the risk of dealing in preconceptions more than most writers, because his turf, the South, is defined in the national eye almost exclusively in preconceptions...
...bemused fans who had paid up to $29 for a ticket. Women reporters, said the singer, are "broads" and "hookers." Frankie, who is traveling with Close Friend Barbara Marx, 44, added, "I might offer them a buck and a half." Next day he learned he was really on alien turf. The Australian Journalists Association demanded an apology and other unions threatened to hamper future performances. Frankie said he was owed an apology for "15 years of shit," canceled the tour and summoned his private jet. Putting down at Sydney, Frank learned that airport refuelers refused to handle his plane. Tense...