Word: lift
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Every skier comes to a point sooner or later in his or her careers when the person realizes that he or she is in love with sport. For me this moment came last year. I had been waiting for 25 minutes on a lift line at Killington. I was freezing, the conditions were awful, and I had aggravated an old injury on the previous run. Yet none of this bothered me in the least. I came to the sudden, unmistakable realization that there was no place else I wanted to be, that I was completely hooked on downhill skiing...
Wherever you go, however you go, the important thing is to enjoy yourself at a sport that doesn't require ten-dollar lift tickets, two hour rides in search of "skiable snow," or equipment that would bankrupt the U.S. Treasury...
McNamara said that although Wellesley did not present a formidable challenge, "the victory will be a great psychological lift for the Brown meet." Brown defeated the Crimson last year and the home team is aiming for a reverse outcome in the upcoming confrontation this Saturday at 10:30 at the I.A.B...
...crew of about 400. The racking began early on, when the crewmen were told what the ship's real mission was and given secrecy pledges to sign. Says one crewman: "They told us that they were the same kind of documents Daniel Ellsberg had signed." During the lift of the sub, the ship heaved and groaned so much that some feared it would tear apart. Others fretted about the Soviet spy trawlers that were frequently spotted. Says Joe Rodriguez, who was recruited for the mission out of a Hollywood hairdressing salon because he had served a Navy stint...
...class for aspiring conductors. Pausing during a rapid-fire series of prickly comments ("I am not here to teach you tricks"), he recalled the days when he was a child taking riding lessons. On the night before his first jump he was sleepless with worry. " 'How can I lift this enormous thing up into the air and over the fence?' I thought to myself. Then I realized no one lifts the horse. You set it in the right position and it lifts itself. The orchestra will do the same thing...