Word: icing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WENT ON forever. Until I saw two people who I'd never seen before, three or so turns in the trail below. The turns were three hard "switchbacks," like the five or so immediately before them. The trail was filled with ice-water and slush that reached mid-calf. It took at least five minutes to reach the hikers. During those five minutes fear and worry vanished. People meant help. They would know how much farther to the end, to Whitney Portal, they would be able to put the wool shirt on me and get out wool socks...
...they couldn't. They were in much worse shape than I was in, walking slowly, in scantier clothes, soaked, with ice-caked beards. They needed help badly and I knew I wasn't strong enough to do what was necessary alone, which scared me. No longer thinking about myself, I tried to follow Adrian's footsteps at a run but kept losing them since the switchbacks had stopped as the ground leveled off for a while. Because the cairns meant to mark the trail were snow-covered, and indistinguishable from countless other rockpiles, it could go anywhere. I started...
...that erupted with a violence, a hatred and a suddenness that plunged both of us into an instantaneous struggle for survival. She leaped off the counter and grabbed for my throat like a mad dog. I lost my footing and fell to the floor, hitting my head on the ice chest as I went down. The choking pain of her fingers around my throat met the thudding ache of the blow to the back of my head ... Her mouth was twisted with rage and her eyes?her eyes were the eyes of a killer animal, glistening with excitement...
...tireless hours signing autographs, Orr smiling shyly as the cheers swept over him. Orr was a magician, a man who accomplished what no other defenseman had ever done?become his team's main scoring threat. Playing for the Boston Bruins, Orr changed the dimension of the game, sweeping up ice from the far end of the rink and then scoring with his short-range wrist shot. Twice he led the league in goals, an astonishing feat for a defender. For a record three straight years, he was the N.H.L.'s most valuable player...
...sales pitch. He lacks great size or speed but he has a knack of finding the seam in zone defenses that he attributes to the perspective he gained while playing quarterback. His ability to catch the ball under pressure would undoubtedly earn him the nickname "the wee ice mon" if he played on the Isle of Skye eleven...