Word: erg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hill, though, I somehow began to. After zigzagging slowly down the top half of the slope, I picked up speed as my group slid closer and closer to the bottom of the hill. Again and again I jammed my poles in the snow and pushed off with every erg of energy my sunken pectorals and triceps could produce. My nose, exposed, throbbed, but I didn't care because I was in motion...
With 500 meters to go, Cooper put his erg in overdrive and started to close on the leaders, Dartmouth's Edward Murphy and Princeton's Wyman Morris...