Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tropical rains pelted down, made the ground so slippery that to climb the slightest incline men had to plod up with "herringbone" ski technique, or haul themselves up by thick overhanging vines. Some U.S. units were fighting three or four days from their base; their supplies were brought in by human pack trains-soldiers and Filipino laborers...
...Hope, ski-nosed favorite of U.S. doughboys, who returned two months ago from a 30,000-mile tour of the South Pacific, was suspended by Paramount for failure to show up for work on a new picture, promptly announced that he had '"suspended" Paramount because "the boys come first. ... If somebody'll suspend the war, I'll be very happy to start another picture. . . . I'll give the country a nice rest How often can people stand to look at my kisser...
...training of the S.S.F. never ended. Its troops learned all the commando tricks. They learned to march 57 miles in 24 hours with full packs. They became ski troops, qualified as parachutists, were whisked from Vermont to Florida to Montana to find the right ground for learning new skills...
There are 29 tunnels on the highly scenic, two-hour Denver & Salt Lake run from Denver to Winter Park. Last weekend many young high-school couples from Denver enjoyed the tunnels on their way to the ski slopes. They were not using their jalopies, but the only reason was that their own particular black market in gas coupons had been almost wiped...
...again intact. The does have diagnosed his case as "strep" throat, but with Bunyard's pneumonia, Noel's flu, and Johnson's (either one) general condition, that's hard to understand--I guess this married life affects different ones in different ways . . . On the other hand, with a ski party planned in the 4th company this weekend, we don't recommend closing the infirmary altogether . . . May we be the first to welcome our restricted brethren to the "outside." After reading the 5th sentence on page 33 of B. J. M., our only consolation is in the prospect that future weekends...