Word: shuttlecocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puppets at Play. As the feathered shuttlecock darted back & forth, Dave Freeman, who specializes as a doctor in neurosurgery, kept up his usual flow of chatter, most of it addressed to himself: "Stupid -wake up!" "Oh Dave-how could...
...could see the white panorama of St. Moritz, and directly below-extending a sinister invitation-the village cemetery. One false move would put him in it. A few yards further, he roared into a sharp right turn, had no trouble until his skeleton sled went too high into Shuttlecock. With a desperate jerk, he brought it down. Said he afterwards: "I still had two fingers of space between the edge of the bank and the runner of my skeleton-that's just enough." An inch more and he would have crashed. Six times he made the descent of Cresta...
...frantic score by Lenny Bernstein, the three "insecure people" (the integrated ones never appeared) rolled on the floor, kissed indiscriminately, tussled. Then the two men tossed Nora Kaye back & forth like a shuttlecock until she fell sobbing on the floor (on opening night, she went down so hard that many seat-holders thought she had sprained her ankle). At this point, Ballerina Kaye cried out "Stop...
Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
...Cresta is ... for skeleton toboggans and nothing else. The idea that it is straight [TIME, Jan. 7] is erroneous. There are I think at least eleven quite serious corners called "banks." I have not been over all of them but I should have thought "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" had almost an international reputation for collecting casualties...