Word: skier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skier's Swoops. But after the armor had broken through this last crust, it had taken off in wide swoops over all the great road network. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s famed 4th Armored Division's Combat Commands A and B, led by the fabulously tough team of Lieut. Colonel Creighton Abrams Jr. and Major Harold Cohen, are expert in this type of war. In operations such as this penetration toward the German heart, the armor moves like a cross-country skier, sliding swiftly down roads, diagnosing the terrain on the fly. If an obstacle...
...rugged hiker, skier, bicyclist or canoeist, or if you just like a weekend change of scenery the HOC hopes to be able to offer a program suited to your taste. As an added attraction for lazy undergraduates, some of the Outing Club's excursions offer athletic credit...
Married. Cinemactress Norma Shearer, 38; and San Francisco-born Skier Martin Arrouge, 28, ex-instructor at Sun Valley; she for the second time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif. He formerly taught her son and daughter skiing. She is the widow of Cineproducer Irving Thalberg, who left her and their children nearly $4,500,000. Before the marriage Skier Arrouge signed an agreement waiving his rights to a share of her estate...
...Every skier who ever went to Harvard or Dartmouth has his chance to show Ferner, Meservey, and other top-notch college schussers how to run a slalom course in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom to be held on the Tuckerman Ravine Headwall next Sunday...
Then Ferner placed second to no the last weekend, beating the number one intercollegiate downhill skier, Dartmouth's Bob Meservey, in one run and tying him for first in the eighth annual Appalachian Mountain Club race on the Wildeat Trail In Pinkham Notch Sunday...