Word: turfing
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...Crimson had lost. The Crimson had lost big, 7-1, to two-time defending national champion Wake Forest, a school surely unaccustomed to the snow which piled along the turf and sidelines. The rollercoaster campaign which had given Harvard the chance to compete in the NCAA Tournament had shut the door, seemingly, just as quickly as it had opened...
...more than half an hour after Harvard demolished Princeton 39-14 on the Tigers home turf. Dawson had just finished his best statistical game of the year with 201 yards rushing and three touchdowns...
...limited by injury, Thomas charted the defense from the press box in each of Harvard’s games last year. The aerial view allowed him to see the machinations of opposing offenses as well as the interworkings of the Harvard defense. No press box could compare to the turf, but Thomas nursed his sore foot and watched...
Secondly, the Democrats should make inroads on Republican ideological turf and attempt to refocus dialogue. Specifically, two areas that are ripe for the taking are the debate on criminal justice and faith-based initiatives. The proposition in California that sought to reform their infamous “three strikes” laws was defeated, but the support may be present nationwide to curtail the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Curbing mass incarceration would certainly curry favor with black voters, and it wouldn’t even have to be cast as an explicitly racial issue. The unchecked growth...
...hometown Colonials in 1776 has Boston celebrated like this. As victory drew near--the finale was a 3-0 game in which the Cards played as though the curse had struck them--thousands of fans gathered near Fenway, while across New England, from the Maine woods to the divided turf of Connecticut, there was teary joy. Even in Manhattan, deep within enemy territory, expats of the Red Sox Nation poured into the streets to celebrate as the locals, for once, quietly seethed. Some 3.2 million fans thronged Boston for the victory parade, so many that the parade route was extended...