Word: curlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden thaws. At each end of the rink there are fixed bull's-eye targets (see diagram). Each player on a four-man team, captained by an authoritarian "skip," gets two shots at the target on each round. With a bowler's arm-swinging motion, the curler hoists a 40-lb. circular (maximum circumference: 36 in.) stone,* and sends it slithering down the ice toward the "tee line" bull's-eye. If the stone falls short of the "hog line," it is automatically removed from the rink; if it slides beyond the scoring line, it is also...
...That's the way to play the game," shouted McKinlay to his grinning skip. The Scot skip was less demonstrative. Soberly he raised his broom, the curler's signal for a well-played shot...