Word: nordic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which later were published in "Facing Mt. Kenya." For the first time I learned about female circumcision, but it was never my subject. About 30 years later a paper on Female Infibulation was published in Studia Ethnographica Upaliensia XX, 1964. The author is Professor C.G. Widstrand, Director of the Nordic Africa Institute. His well documented paper has what Dr. Counter calls "explicit photographic materials on violence against women(and children)"--Dr. Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned! To his outbursts about my intelligence and academic training I state that apart from...
Hampered by the defection of alpine star, Kristin Hodgkins, who quit the team after it was forced into Division II for a week, only alpine captain Vera Fajtova, nordic captain Maureen Devlin, and fellow cross-country specialist Missy Holbrook put together memorable races...
Because of the chronic lack of snow, the nordic events were held at Dartmouth, while the alpiners traversed gates on the flat, icy terrain of Brodie Mountain...
...halfway point of the Nordic combined competition, which consists of both cross-country skiing and ski jumping, Ulrich Wehling of East Germany held a slim 227.2-221.8 lead over Walter Malmquist of Post Mills...
...made snow, scooping it up for loading into an ever moving convoy of dump trucks. One week before the Olympic Games were scheduled to open, the final yards of the cross-country courses were being blanketed. For the first time in history, man-made snow was being used for Nordic skiing. In less than a month, Fletcher's crew of 50-plus men, 30 dump trucks and 19 spreading machines had trundled through the woods around Mount Van Hoevenberg and covered a maze of trails 17 miles long with almost a foot of snow...