Word: kitzb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the heyday of Andrea Mead Lawrence have U.S. woman skiers offered notable competition for the talented European girls. But last week in the Austrian town of Kitzbühel, ski buffs were talking enthusiastically about a pair of pretty 20-year-olds from New England who have set the skiing fraternity on its ear. At Grindelwald, Switzerland, the week before, Penny Pitou had won the downhill and combined championships, and Betsy Snite had taken the giant slalom, finished second to Penny in the downhill. Bubbled Betsy: "We came to Kitzbühel to find ourselves famous...
...Kitzbühel last week, the two girls temporarily ran out of luck to go with their new fame. Betsy fell the first day and was out of the running. Penny finished second in the downhill, but ran into trouble near meet's end when she turned too sharply into a slalom gate, tumbled in the sticky snow. But neither of the country girls was discouraged. "Oh. well." sighed Penny, "that's the way the ball bounces...
With this precision, Sailer combines not only strength and prime condition, but an astonishing ability to pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for brush strokes in an ink drawing, and somehow seems to fit the smooth, effortless swing down the slopes to an endless list of championships...
...Simpson recedes into vagueness. The Prince returned for more and more of Wallis' beef stew-she used a recipe from Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Came the day when she simply could not refuse the Prince's invitation to ski at Kitzbühl. That evening for the first time she heard her husband's "door bang." Later he went off to sleep at the Guards' Club...