Word: skying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Radical or Liar? By far, his most effective performance came before 3,000 Wisconsin State University students in Stevens Point. In snow-bunny country, he japed about his own ski-jump nose, then turned serious for a continent-by-continent review of U.S. policy. On Viet Nam, Nixon nimbly sidestepped the thorny question of what should be done about the problem now, and simply insisted: "We must prevent confrontations like that in Viet Nam. We must help people in the free world fight against aggression, but not do their fighting for them...
Drunken Pretzel. As an analyst of affluence, Galbraith does not speak from the curious outside. He summers on the family's 247-acre farm near Newfane, Vt., spends part of each winter at a commodious rented chalet in Gstaad, an elegant ski resort in Switzerland. William Buckley, a sometime skiing companion, says that Galbraith looks like "a drunken pretzel" coming down the slopes, but another observer describes his form as "graceful, lordly, solemn even?like Charles de Gaulle going down an escalator...
...Dartmouth is unbeatable this year with its jumping power," said coach Dick Friedman, in his first year at Harvard. "But the team did a very creditable job considering we ski against the top six teams in the East...
Harvard's ski team placed a surprising third behind Dartmouth and Middlebury in Dartmouth's 58th annual Winter Carnival in Hanover on Friday and Saturday...
...concentration. Nobody takes a slalom gate quite the way he does-hurtling round the pole with his body slung out sideways, almost parallel to the snow. Nobody else has quite mastered his avalement technique of accelerating on the downhill turns-rocking back on his haunches and thrusting his skis so far forward that he seems certain to fall. Few have the courage to ski, as he puts it, "toujours à mort." And few can match his mental approach to a race. "When I ski, I ski," he says. "I am all alone with the mountain. I leave everything else aside...