Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skiman, of course, is no mere skier. He holds that any fool can learn to slide down an icy hill on a pair of slats. True Skimanship consists of appearing as an expert without actually knowing how to ski. This appearance aids the Skiman's technique in such accompanying winter sports as snow-bunnying and bird-dogging, at which he is generally fairly adroit anyway...
Sartorial appearance is the first concern of the Skiman. The effect should be that of cosmopolitan carelessness. It will be noted that only the amateur Skiman lets ski-two tickets congregate on his collar or belt. The true Skiman's jacket is bare and somewhat battered. In advanced cases, a small shoulder-patch, reading "Innsbruck," is permissible. One of the best ploys is mismatched skis, preferably one white and one brown, or one racing ski and one cross-country ski. This is the famous "Sturm and Drang" technique; it give the Skiman a chance to explain that his skis were...
...arrivals are herded into a former British army camp renamed Shaar Aliyah (Gate of Immigration), for two weeks or so of medical isolation. The heterogeneous immigrants stroll aimlessly: a gangling youth in a heavy blue ski suit that was fine for the weather he knew in Rumania will gawk at shriveled, turbaned old men clad in the pajama suits of North African Arabs; chattering old ladies from Hungary, clutching fur scarves, look incredulously on squatting North African women in long cotton shifts...
Skiddy Lund: Adams; Ski Team; Manager, Freshman, Varsity Tennis; Crimson Key; Treasurer, Society for Minority Rights; Treasurer, House Committee; Chairman, House Food Committee; P.B.H...
Harvard placed seventh in the jump and the combined jump-cross country events and eighth-in the final standings in the Men's Intercollegiate Ski Competition at Middlebury yesterday...