Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Public Drama. The I.R.A. extracted a maximum of public drama from his funeral. Gunmen patrolled the Turf Lodge area of West Belfast where McCann's body lay in state in an apartment. The Irish News ran an entire page of messages of sympathy, many from interned I.R.A. fighters. An estimated 2,000 mourners-including black-bereted I.R.A. fighters and uniformed girls of the Fianna na Eireann, a sort of junior I.R.A.-marched in the funeral cortege, while another 3,000 watched from the sidewalks. Civil Rights Firebrand Bernadette Devlin, who had been sentenced in absentia the day before...
...building at the University of Chicago, but there is little indication that it can be applied successfully here. The occupiers will probably be eligible to file for homestead before they would leave Mass Hall to Bok and Angola to Gulf. As Randall Robinson puts it. "This our turf now. The University is in exile. Now we are prepared to confer a degree on you in here. Yeah, we've taken our shoes off and set up. Yeah, this Birth of a Nation...
...This is our turf now. The University is in exile," one of them said as the darkness deepened Saturday evening and the occupation prepared to endure its third night...
After being snowed out twice on Amherst's new course last season. Harvard will be playing on the Jeffs' home turf for the first time. It is possible that the match may be cancelled yet another time because of wet grounds. Crimson captain Skip Kistner called the course "tricky" and said it could work to Amherst's advantage, as could the wet conditions following a rainy weekend...
...circumstances, that one strike was sufficient to retire all the players in big-league baseball. Deadlocked in a dispute with club owners over pension-fund payments, they boycotted all of the scheduled major league games. Across the country, stadiums, freshly mowed (or, in the case of those with artificial turf, vacuumed) in anticipation of the start of the new season, stood empty and silent...