Word: shuttlecock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glass-hard groove as he slid along, and by the time he hit the straightaway at Junction, dropping as much as one foot for every three he covered, Bibbia was close to 70 m.p.h. He "scratched ice" as he negotiated the wicked 90° turns called Battledore and Shuttlecock, but only enough to slow his sled by a fraction. Toes up once more, he skittered under a railroad bridge past nasty little bends called Scylla and Charybdis. At the finish line he was traveling 90 m.p.h. Bibbia's time for the 1,320-yd. dive: a winning...
...Records. When it came his turn last week, Connor, 38, and now an aviation executive, had to better all his past speeds to catch Bibbia. Calmly he watched a procession of other competitors fly into trouble at Shuttlecock. One shot over the lip of the turn and disappeared in the trailside snow. "He's waving to show that at least one arm is not broken," was the announcer's casual comment. Then Connor slammed onto his skeleton...
Chuteside watchers could hear him shout as he hit Battledore: "Faster, goddammit. Let's go faster." At Shuttlecock he misjudged by the merest fraction of an inch. His spiked shoes grabbed empty air as he catapulted over the rim and soared ten feet into the snow. Seconds later he was up, unhurt-but disqualified from a Cresta race for the first time in his career...
Connor clocked such a fast first run that Bibbia made a dangerous mistake trying to catch up and came to woe at Shuttlecock. With Bibbia disqualified, Doug Connor was an easy winner and once more the undisputed champion of Cresta...
...based on his principle of "quiet leadership," although on other issues he has exerted himself conspicuously. One factor in this particular disintegration of White House leadership was the President's somewhat disabling post-operation convalescene at the time. Whatever the cause, by allowing Republican legislators to play political shuttlecock with a vital problem, Ike has let the seed of his prestige fall on stony ground...