Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Must have been about 1937. President Conant was skiing about 30 miles cast of here. Ski must have broken under him. He actually busted his collarbone...
Coach Halsey's ski team gets a crack at competition in its own league when it treks west to the Williams Carnival this weekend...
...Ski enthusiasts who watched Boston's record snowfall with anticipatory glee will not be disappointed this weekend. Reports emanating from the north indicate good or excellent skiing everywhere...
There comes a time in every schusser's life when he or she must decide the main purpose of skiing. The experts who hurtle nonchalantly down the slopes say it's the actual schussing; others who hurtle awkwardly into snowdrifts aren't so sure; the beginner can't stay on his feet long enough to reach a conclusion. A small portion of male skiers and a far larger female contingent end this conflict by deciding it's the social lift that makes the ski weekend. These, dear reader, are the snowbunnies...
...high French Alpine village, Corinne Audal has lived for two years with an expatriate young Austrian ski instructor. Daughter of one French army officer and wife of another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal...