Word: maire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starting from the unfavorable No. 1 position, which meant having to carve tracks through the remains of a light overnight snowfall, he showed the world a run -- 2 min. .14 sec. -- that none of the next dozen racers could touch. Italy's 6-ft. 4-in. Michael Mair, a downhill winner earlier in the season, skidded off the course. Girardelli and West Germany's Markus Wasmeier, two superb all-event men, skied with insufficient fury and finished sixth and ninth...
Right. But don't count your money just yet. Big, cheerful Michael Mair of Italy, who won at Leukerbad last month, could get his bear-shaped 220 lbs. behind a thundering run. A slightly smaller Swiss bear, burly Daniel Mahrer, has won two downhills so far this season. No U.S. skier will place in the downhill without supernatural intervention, but any one of several Austrians could reverse that team's unaccountable recent blahs and win out of sheer embarrassment. And then, of course, there is Pirmin Zurbriggen, 25, the people's choice from Zurich to Zug, from Zell to Saas...
...years ago, a television weatherman in Louisiana opened with: "Looking at the big map, we can see a cold mair ass coming out of Canada...
...York City. As he chatted on and on, the telephone rang near by in Manhattan Beach police headquarters. The Brooklyn district attorney's office was calling to ask that the man on the phone in the coffee shop be arrested. The police hustled over, and Sergeant Jack Mair approached the caller from behind. "I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to identify himself," says Mair. "He looked at me, saw my uniform and my shotgun, and said, 'Howard Buddy Jacobson...