Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Labor Relations Board ruled yesterday that the installation of artificial turf is a mandatory subject for contract bargaining between the National Football League club owners and the players...
...usual reasons for the decline of the novel were chewed over. Pop psychology and sociology have moved onto its turf. The New Journalists, crying Wolfe about America, have stolen its reportorial beat. Readers are spending a lot more time in bed with television. And there are always glum statistics about the high cost and low output of serious quality fiction...
Cambridge won't exactly explode when the winless Crimson and MIT lacrosse squads clash for the City championship, but the stickmen (0-9) are apt to light a few fuses today at 4 p.m. on Tech turf in their best prospect of a win this season...
...game survived it all. How? Is it because of the inexhaustible promotional gimmicks, the bat and ball and senior citizens days; the all-weather artificial turf; the dazzling uniforms? Is it the metaphysics and momentum that still continue from the zenith of the '30s and '40s? Or is it that this supposedly stolid, permanent game has imperceptibly accommodated change-that in each era it has accepted physical, textual and social alterations that a decade before had seemed impossibly revolutionary? Is it that, in the end, no other sport is so accurate a reflection of the supposedly stolid, permanent...
...exhibition lacrosse game, scheduled today, between the Brine Lacrosse Club (formerly New England Lacrosse Club) and the Crimson varsity has been washed out. Furthermore, against all muddy tradition of the game, the league contest pitting the frosh with MIT on Tech turf today has been postponed. The varsity will not reschedule its tiff, but the MIT tiff will be made-up, at an unspecified date...