Word: skier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skier had obviously come downhill on one foot, reclimbed the hill and come down on the other...
...skier had slipped one foot out of his ski boot as he approached the tree, slipped it back after he passed...
...skier who outjumped them all, Torger ("Old Iron Legs") Tokle, used to say that if the ski jump at Steamboat Springs, Colo. were fixed up a bit, a new U.S. record could be set there. He did not live to see it: Sergeant Tokle of the skiborne 10th Mountain Division was killed in Italy...
Altogether Gibson has poured around $300,000 into his hobby (including $50,000 for a log base-station, new this season), has taken out his dividends in fun. A so-so skier (he hurt his knee cap seven years ago), he nevertheless likes to wrap himself in a huge sheepskin coat, clap on a cocky green Alpine hat, ride up the mountain and ski down (see cut). Nights he joins the orchestra in the Currier & Ives Room at the inn, plays one of his four mandolins and seven violins, including a glass one. Between numbers, he regales his guests with...
...every skier knows, waxing a ski makes it slide more easily over snow. Applying wax to wood has become a ritual and a pseudo-science among skiers. But it may soon become a lost art. Last week Dow Chemical Co. announced the first successful all-metal ski. It needs no waxing...