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Word: cyc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have to beat the F.I.S.-which at week's end was threatening to cancel the championships because East Germany's ski team had been refused papers for travel in the West. But even if the F.I.S. cleared the slopes, Cyc Ferries would remain the most devastating cyclone on skis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cyclone on the Slopes | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...also-ran on the fiercely competitive European ski circuit. A member of the U.S. Alpine ski team since 1960, Ferries had won a couple of races in the U.S., none at all in the Alps, was noted mainly for a helter-skelter skiing style that neatly matched his nickname: "Cyc," for cyclone. But last week Cyc Ferries was the sensation of the 1962 season. He had scored successive slalom victories at Austria's Kitzbühel and Italy's Cortina d'Ampezzo, was a solid favorite to capture the slalom again this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cyclone on the Slopes | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

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