Word: ski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many native Vermonters like myself, the demise of the ski industry in Vermont would be cause for celebration. Each winter weekend, skiers clog our roads, ignore common traffic law, and anger us with their obnoxious behavior...
...ski tourist industry has a stranglehold on the economy. Regular industry is discouraged. Many like myself have had to move to neighboring states to find decent employment...
...fact that the aforementioned schools had less than no chance of winning the championship also probably contributed to their reluctance to ski to Cambridge. Princeton and Yale, the meet's co-favorites, faced no such problem. "We felt we had to come," said Princeton mentor Janie Tyler. "It's just that once we did, we had to walk to the Hyatt from Central Square with our luggage because no taxis would pick us up." It wasn't so much the walk through the snowdrifts that bothered the Tigers but the fact they had to carry their luggage. They...
...Harvard men's and women's ski team ignored threats of arrest by a Somerville policeman early Friday morning and drove up to Hanover, New Hampshire, to participate in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival Ski Competitions held over the weekend...
Harvard's weak showing stemmed from the team's inability to dig two of the ski team's automobiles from icy snowbanks. Only three of the original five cars finally made the trip north, limiting the Crimson to only one entrant in each of the cross-country races...