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Word: rodell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...America against all the other nations of the world, and that in many events we are trying to buck others at their own game. For example, these were the first Olympics to have racing on a small sled which the French called a luge, the Germans a rodel and the English a toboggan, which it isn't. Ours was a pickup team of utter greenhorns. It would have been preposterous to expect them to beat racers who have been riding these things since infancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Who Lost What Olympics? | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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