Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holy Angels' 1,300 students all come from Chicago's crumbling South Side ghetto, home turf of the feared street gang, the Black P Stone Nation. Their parents, half of whom are on welfare, must promise in advance not only to pay $18 a month but also to attend monthly P.T.A. meetings and weekly Mass-even though less than half of them are Catholic. "This is a Catholic school first, not a community school," declares the black parish priest, the Rev. George Clements. "We want them to set an example for their children, and we want non-Catholic...
Wood's absence from the JV squad hurt Radcliffe's second game on the Jackson turf as the 'Cliffe JV dropped a 3-0 decision to the Medford women...
...then-being a good Christian gentleman-getting down on his knees to say a prayer." God apparently did not listen to quarterbacks' prayers in those days, and Clark soon went back to the grandstand as a constant spectator and sometime sport reporter. Last week he was on familiar turf, interviewing Joe Namath for our cover story...
...lose, Namath generates more high-voltage excitement than any other player in the game. Indeed he is the sort of thrill producer that the N.F.L. badly needs these days. On the surface (whether it is Mother Nature's or Sudo Turf) the game still appears to be prospering at the brisk pace it set in the 1960s. Baseball may be the national pastime, but pro football has become the national obsession. It is now, according to N.F.L. Commissioner Alvin ("Pete") Rozelle, a $130 million-a-year business. There are 26 teams in the league's two conferences...
Lacking sufficient courage to brave the wet turf underfoot, or to battle a Crime team undefeated in 299 consecutive games, the Jox copped...