Word: skiing
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...nordic unit, which doesn’t recruit and lacks a full-time coach, made a similar one-time excursion to train in Utah, but missed the season’s first carnival due to finals and was largely prevented from practicing on even the nearby Weston Ski Track by this year’s mild winter...
...shirt-blue-suit-discreet-tie FBI reinvented itself from a corps of 'generalists,' trained in law and accounting, into a confrontational 'Special Weapons and Tactics' (aka SWAT) Green Beret-style army of warriors who like to dress up in camouflage or black ninja clothing and, depending on the caper, ski masks." Note the penultimate noun in that sentence: in Vidal's account, it's those who job it is to fight crime who are the criminals, and who pull the "capers...
...Want a brewski?” Boris G. Sumilovitch ’03 was asked several years ago. “I certainly do-ski!” he responded wittily. Sumilovitch has been telling the story of “that awesome time I said ‘I certainly do-ski’” ever since. Observers speculate that constant repetition of the story could explain the frequency with which Sumilovitch endures violent nut-kickings...
...pages of National Geographic. Over time he improved on tradition with seven-ply reflective insulation, architectural-quality vinyl-laminated fabrics and aircraft-quality tension cables to produce a warm, draft-free, ultra-stable modern superyurt. He now employs more than 20 people full-time supplying yurts to ski resorts, national parks, military bases and thousands of private yurt enthusiasts all over the world, who use them for anything from a stylish toolshed to a whimsical vacation home. Yurts even served as warming huts at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. "We've seen this almost astronomical rise in demand...
...fans, were very accommodating. My dad would give me early-morning rides so I could catch up on projects for ceramics class, which I never had time to work on after school. My mom would give me very early-morning rides so I could catch the bus for the Ski Club’s day trips. Even the spring of my senior year, long after I had been accepted into Harvard, and when I should have been resting on my laurels, I was still very busy. I had the title role in our Drama Festival production of Oscar Wilde?...