Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oops another sarter," said the svelte Smith coed as she heard a suspicious snap beneath her ski pants at the Darmouth winter carnival after negotiating Dead Man's Leap and landing in an undignified posture in Horror Gulch...
...gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding out victories-in the Pentathlon, the 10,000-meter speed skating, the 18-, 40-and 50-kilometer ski races. No U.S. skier was up to the rugged 50-kilometer (30¼-mile) grind through the Alps...
...first Olympic victory. The girl who won it was slim, brown-haired Gretchen Fraser of Vancouver, Wash., who wears pigtails and looks younger than her 29 years. No one gave her (or any other U.S. woman) a chance against Europe's talented stars. She was the first to ski down the tricky special slalom run, which had thawed and frozen again. For ten minutes she stood nervously at the top of the run, her eyes closed most of the time, while officials tested the electric timing device and fussed with the position of the gates. Then...
...down the slope, zigzagging between the red and yellow flags that mark the gates, skidded once and almost missed a gate. Her first run was clocked in 59.7 seconds ; the second time, she cut two seconds off that. Thanks to Gretchen Fraser, the U.S. had won its first Olympic ski race in history. The same day, boyish Dick Button, 1 8, of Englewood, N.J., jumped and spun through his figure-skating routine to give the U.S. its second triumph...
...newest sartorial hint on ski garb comes from the sports pages of a national womens' magazine, which tells the saga of Mrs. X., a homebody who whips up her own ski clothes. Mrs. X. combs department store counters for bolts of bizarrely-colored and woven fabrics, waterproofs them by browing them in a potion of wax, and tailors her trousers to size...