Word: turf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition of another, simultaneous football season at Soldiers Field would result in irreparable wear and tear on the playing turf. Even if the professional team reimbursed the HAA for the damage, no amount of money can recondition a field after two football games within 48 hours, in time for the next game a week away...
...Britain's current boom. But against that. Labor could appeal to the deep-rooted British feeling that no party should be kept in office too long. As election day approached, most of Britain's political experts cagily refused to make predictions and many of London's "turf accountants," i.e., bookies, were refusing to handle election bets. At week's end those who would were offering odds of 5-to-3 against Labor...
...match Gonzales' ferocious concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an overwhelming brand of tennis. Flatfooted, he can hit a backhand with a flick of his powerful wrist with so much top spin that the ball seems to zoom off the turf like a maddened hornet...
...Turf in the Tenement. Perhaps the book's most appealing episode is the horse-racing fantasy-for Jack Duluoz, like any right-thinking Massachusetts twelve-year-old, is a track addict. In the Duluoz tenement, on dark winter mornings, Jack scribbles out racing forms, plays the call to colors on the Victrola, stages elaborate handicap races with marbles ("I owned that great Repulsion, also personally rode the beast, and trained him . . . also ran the Turf, was Commissioner, Track Handicapper, President of the Racing Association, Secretary of the Treasury...
...Riddle has been a dog lover from youth. His father, a hearse manufacturer in Ravenna, Ohio, bred bloodhounds; Riddle himself owns a Belgian sheep dog and a Brittany spaniel. Max broke into journalism as turf editor for Scripps-Howard in Cleveland, but horses were not his meat. Invited by the Press in 1939 to write about dogs, Riddle has since expanded into kindred fields. Besides his dog column he writes another devoted to all manner of animals, is an authority on most zoo animals, several kinds of lizards, and the diet of pet snakes (start with raw hamburger and worm...