Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days must have dragged for King Haakon. Nights were now only twilight and almost every day fresh blankets of spring snow fell to impede the progress of Allied and Norse troops seeking to wrest Narvik from the stubborn clutch of some 3,500 Austrian ski troops under General Eduard ("The Bull") Dietl, entrenched on towering Rombak Heights southeast of the town. Through the snow swirls, shielded more than blinded, came steady streams of Nazi planes to drop food, munitions, more men to the beleaguered invaders. They revived and reinforced a second Nazi contingent on the north side of Rombak Fjord...
...Winship, captain of the ski team, this year, was unanimously elected president of the Harvard Ski Club, at its recent meeting. Del Ames is next year's captain as previously announced...
...Ames '43 was elected Captain of the Ski Team for the coming season by the members of this year's team, it was announced last night by Bill Wiggles-worth, next year's manager. Del succeeds Tom Winship, captain for this season, which has been noteable for the success of the team, the building of the new ski cabin, and the founding of the Harvard Ski Club as distinguished from the team itself...
Flight of Haakon. But King Haakon, his Ministers, his Parliament and diplomatic corps, were elusive. After their train had been halted two hours at Kjeller while German planes bombed the nearby airport, they reached the little provincial town of Hamar. Hotels were requisitioned, Government officials in ski clothes sloshed about unpacking crates of documents left in the slushy streets, Parliament convened in the theatre, King and Council met in the theatre's restaurant. The King was dressed in a field uniform, but General Laake, Commander of the Norse Army, had on a black overcoat and derby. He had been...
...midst of a raging wind the Harvard Ski Club edged Dartmouth Saturday in the slalom race by the margin of 50 seconds although the Big Green copped the first four positions...