Word: nordic
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...dozen spectators and race officials were on hand to greet the racers, and no one offered the finishers so much as a cup of hot chocolate. In fact, one Putney resident passing by did not even know that the U.S. National Cross-Country Championship Races, the big so-called nordic skiing event of the year, were taking place almost in her backyard...
...Nordic Route. The wave of improved nordic racers reflects a new surge of participation in the sport. Turned off by the high cost of downhill equipment and lifts, not to mention the crowded conditions at most alpine ski resorts, many people are now going the nordic route. For full-time competitor as well as amateur, there is a price for the solitude they find along rural trails: hard work. Few sports are so demanding. On long, thin skis, cross-country skiers are like marathon runners covering miles of rugged terrain while burdened by pounds of awkward gear...
...Hillels say, in the cold war atmosphere of 1946 and 1947, the Allies were reluctant to drain West Germany of potentially valuable citizens, particularly those who would have to be returned to Communist-held lands. After exhaustive research, the Hillels concluded that Himmler's plan to build a Nordic superrace was a failure on its own terms. "A superrace?" asks a German nurse who cared for children at one Lebensborn center after the war. "Not at all. These children were a mixture of bright, average and retarded. They were quiet and unexpressive, like most institutional children...
...Friedrich was one of the most German artists Germany produced in the 19th century. He never made the obligatory journey south to study in Rome; his subject matter was the foggy and precipitous vista, sublimely expansive and filled with premonitory brooding. The writer Ludwig Tieck believed Friedrich was the Nordic genius incarnate, whose mission was "to express and suggest most sensitively the solemn sadness and religious stimulus which seem recently to be reviving our German world in a strange way." This month a retrospective of Friedrich's work -about 230 paintings and studies -opened in Frankfurt, reviving...
Robes has been training the Harvard Nordic skiers unofficially for two years. He also assisted head coach Peter Carter with the training of the alpine skiers on the 55 person team...