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Word: skying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days when most Americans thought a lift was a ride and schuss meant "Be quiet," the country's few ski slopes were as warm and friendly as the air was cold and forbidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Backsliding on the Slopes | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...Some ski maneuvers and pursuits through the mountains here reminded me of the underwater sequences in Thunderball: figures keep gliding around in strange, ethereal patterns -- supposedly bellicose, but seemingly choreographed. Identities blur hopelessly...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: The Heroes of Telemark | 2/12/1966 | See Source »

...Irene Galitzine, and visiting some of her other noble friends. In a cape and a white chiffon gown, she attended a dinner party at the 15th century palazzo of Prince Aspreno Colonna, next day bought toys for Caroline and John-John. Flying back to Switzerland to rejoin the family ski outing at Gstaad, Jackie took some other special gifts: a rosary and Vatican stamps that Pope Paul gave her for the children during a private 15-minute audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 11, 1966 | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...brushes with death." Actually, in his only major accident so far, in 1958, he got off with a badly broken nose. The real Eugenio Monti is a short, slight, 38-year-old Italian who prefers Coca-Cola to Chianti, goes to bed at 9, earns his living as a ski-lift operator, and hasn't any idea how he happens to be the world's best bobsledder. "I cannot explain it," he says. "I can only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobsledding: Just Short of Disaster | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...world championships, plus two world titles in four-man sleds. The streak came to an end at the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, when Britain's Tony Nash won the two-man race in a damaged sled that Monti had helped repair. Monti decided to retire to his ski lifts at Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobsledding: Just Short of Disaster | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

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