Word: gate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like John Kennedy, Nixon refuses to kiss babies or wear funny hats on the campaign circuit. In contrast to Governor Romney's hyperactive hand-pumpings at street corner and factory gate, Nixon is deliberately restricting himself to broad policy speeches, delivered with a new urbanity and self-effacing if slightly forced humor, before sizable crowds. For unlike Romney, Nixon is almost too well known. After eight years with Eisenhower, his loss to Kennedy, and his disastrous defeat by Pat Brown in California, he knows he must avoid seeming stale-and a loser-in the voters' minds...
...expecting a major attack within a day or two, you keep your army ready and you don't let them go home on leave. This just wasn't the case. The guard at the U.S. Embassy was lighter that night than it had been for months. The gate of the U.S. Embassy was standing open. You don't have all these things open if you expect an attack...
...only other Harvard skier to place among the top ten in any event was Peter Carter who finished fourth in the giant slalom. Carter also finished fourth in the slalom, but he was disqualified for missing a gate...
...special slalom-Killy was under tremendous pressure. "He's too tense," insisted Austria's Toni Sailer, himself a triple gold-medal winner in 1956. "He can't win." But on the day of the downhill, the pressure seemed to ease. Killy stood patiently at the starting gate, the picture of confidence as he awaited his turn and checked the speeds of competitors. He was No. 14, and by the time he pushed off, the run was rutted and choppy; the leader was his own teammate, Guy Périllat, who had started first and zipped down...
...that, Jean-Claude Killy has added a superb disdain for danger and an almost superhuman capacity for concentration. Nobody takes a slalom gate quite the way he does-hurtling round the pole with his body slung out sideways, almost parallel to the snow. Nobody else has quite mastered his avalement technique of accelerating on the downhill turns-rocking back on his haunches and thrusting his skis so far forward that he seems certain to fall. Few have the courage to ski, as he puts it, "toujours à mort." And few can match his mental approach to a race. "When...