Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sport fans had their choice of 19 events, in which contestants from 31 nations would risk their necks and their reputations on skates, ski jumps and the perilous Cresta Run toboggan course. The experts were betting on Switzerland to win its first winter Olympics (Norway has won three, the U.S. one). More people would see the ice hockey and figure skating than anything else: a guest could watch them from his hotel balcony, highball in hand...
Over-specialization and lack of versatility have once again skidded Crimson ski hopes onto the rocks. History has rolled over losing Harvard ski teams for a decade, and found each stricken with the same germs experts in certain events who can't mature to full-scale team competition...
Cultures for the ski team's banal illness are the tired, rock studded slopes surrounding Cambridge. Even during their short show of skiableness they are notable only in their gentleness compared to the Appalachians, where most of the matches are held. Steep slalom and downhill runs and realistically rugged cross country trails are out of reach of day-to-day car-borne practice trips...
...same spirit that has made the Woburn jump possible has carried team members into the heights of the White Mountains during the weekends. The ski hut a Jackson, New Hampshire has housed capacity crowds this winter in search of downhall, slalom, and cross-country practice in Pinkham notch and Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington...
State police reported all arteries to New Hampshire and Vermont ski resorts "fairly clear" and drivable, but most roads were still slippery in spots...