Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books, pen and paper, lecture notes. Some even go so far as to come fully attired, as if to punish themselves for wandering from the hallowed halls of academe. But most slyly tuck away the accouterments of the experienced sunbather--sunglasses, cocoa butter, iodine, baby oil or Sea 'n Ski (depending on skin type), towels, pillows, harmonicas, frisbees, blankets, congo drums (?!). All of this is hidden in bags and purses under layers of the Puritan ethic in the shape of school work. Take, for example, a young woman who dutifully begins reading Samuelson or Campbell or Marx or whoever...
...contestants came to watery grief, but none seemed to mind after they were hauled out and dried off. Soon they were swapping stories about their runs. "The waves are always 20 ft. high and the holes 5 ft. deep," said Tim Clark, 29, an architect and ski instructor at Vail, Colo., who always times his yearly trip back East to coincide with the derby. "We all lie like fishermen...
...century had been financed by ODESSA, the secret international organization of ex-Nazis who were eager to channel their war loot into venture capital. The reputed leader of ODESSA was Otto Skorzeny, famous as the Waffen SS officer in charge of the 1943 raid on an Apennine ski resort that freed the deposed Mussolini from his captors. Skorzeny died of cancer...
...above sea level. He saw no real mountains until his late teens. Once he did, he was hooked. As he notes, those who are raised in hill country frequently take mountains for granted, as the Swiss did until they realized that other Europeans would pay to climb and ski (and occasionally fall off) their peaks. Others may be terrified of heights, like the 14th century travelers who went through the Alps blindfolded, lest the horrors of the tortuous scenery drive them...
What White Pass lacks in glitter it makes up in snow-the hamlet was created by a ski club-and Phil and Steve began skimming down the slopes at the age of seven. As they developed, they became their own best coaches. Then, at 16, Phil suffered a setback when a freak avalanche buried him to the waist and broke his right leg. One year later he fractured the leg a second time while clowning around on a children's slide. Within 18 months, however, Mahre had recovered sufficiently to place a respectable fifth in the giant slalom...