Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This year, with the dollar-mine booming, the malady gripped the school system. School officials have long since been faced with the looming, 11,300-ft.high Mount Aspen tantalizingly visible from classroom windows. When book learning shuts down at noon every Wednesday, almost the entire school population gathers at the ski school on the mountain. The high school's ski team is among the state's best, and individual students rank high in nonschool meets...
...Math Teacher Sterling Cooper, 26, had torpedoed the high school's four best skiers below C level. Among those sunk: 14-year-old Sharon Pecjak. the best junior girl racer for miles around and daughter of Schodl Board Chairman Rudy Pecjak. The following week the four were to ski in elimination races to determine the area's squad for the National Junior championships. Although they would not race under school auspices, Superintendent William Speer held that eligibility rules covered the elimination races...
...grey-haired, wearing a neat and conservative suit; his air of aplomb as he looked around the crowded room was that of a subdued advertising executive. He spoke good English, and as he began to read the text of a formal speech he ad-libbed that he liked to ski, swim, play tennis; he broadened that into "good sportsmanship" and that into "good neighbors" and that into "peaceful coexistence...
Slim, Westernized Soraya rushed to Switzerland, probably for a new series of "medical checkups." In Zurich, to conceal her purpose from the press, the green-eyed Queen bought 17 ski costumes, new skis, mufflers, mittens, jaunty knitted caps. But she went skiing only twice, to the dismay of the instructor placed wholly at her disposal. The Queen's German mother played solitaire all day, brooded and developed a facial tic. The Queen ate little, leaving her untouched trays out on the terrace to feed the birds. There were no 7 p.m. phone calls from the Shah, routine on previous...
...master the new control, Werner started to get ready for the season as long ago as last summer, when he spent two months on the slopes of the Andes. This winter he put the finishing touches on a new ski technique. "I had been putting too much weight on my inside [uphill] ski, and I tried to ski more on my outside [downhill] ski," he says. "I'm not so wild now. I want to go as fast as I can and still stand...