Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Finn Ferner led a field of seven cross-country skiers around a four mile course at Fresh Pond yesterday afternoon, winning in 26 minutes, 16 seconds. Close behind him was Del Ames, last year's ski captain, with a time of 26 minutes, 37 seconds...
Russian dispatches reported the slaughter of "thousands" of Germans by ski troops cleaning out the Volkhovarea below Leningrad and a 15-mile Red Army advance over southern battle-fields strewn with German bodies...
...Hitler's armies struggled to establish a winter line sufficiently strong to hold until the next thrust at Moscow, planned for the coming of warm weather. But Soviet military leaders claimed that German morale faltered as Red strategists dusted off guerrilla techniques unused since the first Finnish campaign: ski troops to scourge the ski-less, fleeing enemy; night raiders to swoop down on exhausted, sleeping soldiers; propeller-driven sleds mounting cannon and machine guns...
...with their own eyes how well the drive was going. As usual, New York Times's Cyrus L. Sulzberger painted the most vivid picture of the Russian effort: "White-helmeted infantrymen armed with automatic rifles and dragging metal ammunition cases be hind them on the snow, shuffling ski troops, cavalrymen on heavily furred horses, with rifles strapped to their backs and brass-handled sabers rattling by their sides, tractor-drawn supply sleighs and powerful howitzers, long columns of tanks and caterpillar troop carriers slogging past the wrecked debris of recent battles...
Despite recent rumors, the Ski Club probably will not abandon its schedule for winter ski events because...