Word: skier
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...Railroad, had a hand in it. He persuaded his fellow directors that the U.P., hungry for prestige and passengers, should build a resort at Sun Valley. Hollywooders (including Norma Shearer, Claudette Colbert and Darryl F. Zanuck) made it fashionable. Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson hired Austria's famed skier, Hannes Schneider, and spent $1,000,000 to build his home town, North Conway, N. H., into one of the East's major ski resorts (TIME...
...hands on the College squad consider themselves fortunate in having former coach Bill Halsey back again. The only regular coach in the past history of the team, Halsey is a Dartmouth '40 man, and was a four-event skier on the Big Green's "A" team, which is noted for its consistent good quality...
...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...