Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawn last Tuesday," reported TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer, "an army patrol in the Turf Lodge area brought in what looked like much of the arms stock of C Company, 1st Battalion of the I.R.A.'s Belfast Brigade, complete with a framed coat of arms giving the company commander's nom de guerre as Martin Forsythe. A patrol had entered the house on Norglen Crescent shortly after 2 a.m. A boy opened the door and immediately admitted that arms were hidden inside. Sure enough, twelve rifles were neatly stacked in a cupboard, and about 6,000 rounds of ammunition...
...make the lame walk and make the blind see. Because the blues is often spiritually cleansing. B.B. King brought his blues, the cleansing, uplifting type, to the still night air of Boston Common last week, and to a predominantly white audience, proving that even as far away from his turf as he was that Wednesday night, the blues reaches an awful lot of people...
...nearly three years, this column has been the preserve of Henry Luce III, TIME'S publisher. This week I am treading on his turf because we want to report some important new executive assignments-including Luce's. He is leaving the publisher's chair to become a member of Time Inc.'s management operations committee as vice president for corporate planning...
...Penn, directing a balanced offense that scored four touchdowns, but Harvard's pass defense was awesomely bad. The Quaker's second string quarterback, Gary Shue, picked apart the secondary for 392 yards and four TD's, and one end alone, Doug Clune, left his coverage groveling in the astro-turf eight times for 284 yards. The Crimson pulled the game out though, 28-27, when a Penn halfback dropped a two point conversion pass in Harvard's endzone with less than two minutes remaining...
...often shattering and usually infectious joys of the turf are remarkably difficult to describe or explain, especially to outsiders. One of the very few writers who can do so successfully, appropriately enough, is a 51-year-old ex-jockey named Dick Francis...