Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misbegotten event called the combined, not seen in the Olympics for 40 years. This oddity celebrates mediocrity by parlaying a shortened downhill, started below the regular downhill's two fierce initial bends, and two runs of an easier version of the slalom, a fast-turning dash through flagged gates. On the first slalom run Zurbriggen, an all-event virtuoso in whom there is a fine gate skier crying for practice time, tied for sixth behind several slalom slitherers. He led the combined on points. Then, needing only a safe second run to win, he charged too hard, hooked a gate...
...totally surprised when I found the gate between my skis. It made me real mad," he said afterward. But an hour later, hunched over a buffet lunch in a hotel restaurant with his teammates, he pulled his long face up from the table to do just one interview, with a TIME correspondent. "O.K., action!" this shyest and most decent of ski heroes yelled out, trying to cheer the others with him. He declined to blame the weather. "Sure it was windy, but it had no effect on my racing." Or the course. "It was an easy slope, not too hard...
...softer scene involved the sport's former custodians, the Austrians. Leonhard Stock, 29, the fifth-stringer who replaced fabled Franz Klammer in 1980, then made it worse by winning the downhill gold, finished an unexpected fourth last week and was finally embraced. Two days later, when Zurbriggen found a gate between his skis in the combined downhill-slalom, it was an Austrian, Hubert Strolz, atop the podium once more...
When most freshmen enter Johnston gate to begin their four years at Harvard, they tend to be mesmerized by the University and its surroundings...
...effort to convince the thief to return the sign, Spitzer said in the letter, "I'll find a new 'no parking' sign and give it gladly to anyone who'll bring the gate and the sign back, if it's the sign that's wanted...