Word: schuss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stay on their own side of the Atlantic during March. This year, with Europe verboten, the habitues of St. Moritz, St. Anton and other Alpine resorts have discovered that the U. S. has pretty good skiing, too. Instead of a troop of self-taught enthusiasts who yell "track" and schuss helter-skelter down a hill, the U. S. now boasts a well-trained army of 1,000,000 or more whose snowplows and Christies are as polished as their skis. Instead of a few isolated trails, there is a nationwide labyrinth of skiing terrain-with villages challenging the Gemutlichkeit...