Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inexperience really shows when you play in a different stadium in front of an unfriendly crowd," Restic said, and that could be especially important against Cornell, because their stadium has polyturf. "Most of our sophomores and some of our juniors have never played on artificial turf before," Restic lamented. "I just hope they overcome their inexperience as they did in the beginning of the season...
...villains, heroes and fools all in the same afternoon. Through TV, the sport has become a high ritual of bloodletting. It is also, as always, a morganatic wedding of cold mathematics and glorious physical achievement. It is, as well, a confused and pointless scramble across 100 yards of meaningless turf...
...Dunham, the Harlem licensee, was a New York City cop. He faced some problems that Hamburger U. did not prepare him for. Teen-age gangs tried to claim the store as their turf. "They would come in with their chains and start rapping them on the counter," says Dunham. One day Dunham pulled out the .38 revolver that he is licensed to carry and told the gang leaders: "The moment you come in here, you belong to me." Then he bought the leaders hamburgers, talked about black image with them, and gave some of them jobs. Today, Dunham...
...narrative's bog-slogging pace is a shame, be cause Breslin clearly cares, and can teach much about people who seldom turn up in current fiction: frustrated cops, tiresome racists, lower-middle-class wives with horizons defined by mortgage payments and broken washing machines. Breslin knows this turf, but he seems to have taken his title too literally. Under his ministrations, an instructive tour is slowly transformed into an endless vigil...
Radcliffe is new turf for Arthurs and she has enthusiasm and ideas aplenty. Like Horner, Arthurs stresses that her office is not meant to duplicate existing Harvard agencies. "I am committed to the idea of utilizing Harvard's resources for all students," she said in an interview last week. "We shouldn't be seriously separatist but should work in the broader community to force and challenge the available sources to work their damnedest for women...