Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tommy guns on the bumpy ice. Brooks Dodge, also a Dartmouth man and Beck's Olympic teammate, loomed out of the fog at terrific speed, frantically clawing at his misted goggles. One skier blindly pounded on to the flat before he knew he had reached it, hit a bump, hurtled into the air and pinwheeled four times before he hit the ground...
...took off her skis and began a laborious trek, often hip-deep in snow,* down the 1,000-meter course. At each of the 59 "gates," the flag-decked poles marking the obligatory turning points, Andy paused and made mental calculations. She carefully gauged each hillock and bump, guessed at her racing speed, and mentally mapped a line of descent to follow. At the bottom she rested, then trudged back up the course, stopping again at each gate to review and correct her calculations. She was adding her own figuring to the slalom racer's standard formula...
Ducked into doorway. Bump into sign. "New England's largest Toyland, This Way." Woman grabs me by the arm. Fat woman. "Oh, excuse me. I thought you were Forsythe. Have you seen a little boy...?" Hear air raid siren at left elbow. Turns out it's not air raid siren at all but little boy. Forsythe. Pick self off floor and get caught up in herd of stampeding gamins. We sweep through the Hopalong Cassidy Corral, Scout Hut, and emerge in a layer of purgatory which Dante, lucky fellow, never visited. Gamins disperse into scouting parties and disappear...
...dinner engagement at St. Francis Hospital in nearby Jersey City, and when he appeared, holding a handkerchief to his face, Sister Amalia, the superintendent, suggested that he go to the clinic. Brother Salesius protested at first that it was merely a bump, and his injuries amounted to nothing. Then he told about the attack, but he asked her not to tell the three members of his order who were traveling with him, for fear they might worry unduly about...
...injuries seem to be of the "bump" sort, and the squad should be in good shape for the Columbia game, which Jordan expects to be "tough...