Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday's game was played on frozen water instead of muddy turf, but the result was much the same as that of the football contest between the same two colleges last November...
...Miles, when he talks to anybody, tends to grab inspirational credit (at the very least) for himself. How much more credit he deserves is debatable. But let Ralph J. Gleason sum up the whole question: "And in contemporary music Miles defines the terms. That's all. It's his turf...
...average daily size: 106 pages) but not exactly sassy. It carries more advertising linage than any other U.S. daily (1973 total: 117,450,860 lines); yet it gives the impression of just falling short of its great potential. Its metropolitan staff of 96 has problems making sense of its turf-4,800 sq. mi. of overlapping municipal governments that constitute a city editor's nightmare...
...delegates, many of them obviously uncomfortable in the ill-fitting Western suits that they rented for the occasion, met in the grandstand of the Royal Turf Club. They elected 299 of their number to form a new National Assembly, which will approve a new constitution and oversee new national elections. The Assembly's members represent the most democratic political cross section in the country's history. Military and police officers have only about one-tenth of the seats, compared with two-thirds in the old Assembly. Now civil servants, academics, journalists and farmers sit side by side...
...disfavor felt toward the military regime and the need to bring farmers and laborers into the National Assembly. Since last October's student revolt, the King has distinguished himself as an adroit political operator, and he has acted as a catalyst for change." Speaking at the Turf Club to the delegates to the convention, Bhumibol declared: "This is the beginning of democracy...