Word: ossie
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's giant slalom, the crisp and speedy skill that won at Oslo for U.S. Housewife Andrea Mead Lawrence was scarcely in evidence. Andy Lawrence wound up in a tie for fourth. Gold medal winner: Germany's chubby Ossi Reichert. CJ Finnish Forest Ranger Veikko Haku-linen won the 3O-kilometer (18 miles, 1,125 yards) cross-country skiing championship, finished in front of Sweden's Six-ten Jernberg and a strong Russian squad that took every place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics...
...feat was comparable to a middle-distance runner breaking the world record for the mile by more than seven seconds. Despite her first-heat spill, Andy had become the first U.S. skier ever to win two Olympic gold medals. Her winning margin, over Germany's Ossi Reichert: eight-tenths of a second...
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