Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This newspaper will not knuckle under to the fears that are gripping the timid, the small-minded, and the owners of ski resorts; it is just such a super-natural, cosmic crisis that can call forth in the individual a stamina and vigor which transcends ordinary, day-to-day courage. Besides, the Old Farmer's Almanac predicts snow within a week. That's good enough...
...would-be rescuers-five in all-landed in a B-17 and gliders near the marooned party, and failed to get off the ice again, the men welcomed them to the gang. On the 19th day, when Colonel Beaudry landed his ski-equipped C-47, the boys smilingly showed him the bunk they had prepared for his stay. But in 38 minutes they were aboard and sweating out the jet-assisted takeoff. "We faced into the wind, counted noses, checked the engines and took off," said Co-Pilot Blackwell...
Born. To Gretchen Eraser, 29, pert, brown-haired 1948 Olympic ski champion (first American to win an Olympic ski race, the women's special slalom), and Donald W. Fraser, 35, Vancouver, Wash. oil distributor: their first child, a son; in Portland, Ore. Name: Donald Jr. Weight...
...members of the Pinkham Notch ski patrol spent New Year's drying out their clothes--they were caught in the rain the previous afternoon...
...ski team will not take part as scheduled in the Kimball Union OC Cross Country Race at Meriden, N.H. tomorrow, the HAA announced last night. Also cancelled was the team's trip to Hanover, N.H. Sunday for the Hanover Special Jump Meet...