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Word: skying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clubs, hospital operating rooms, and polo fields. I thought once that Jerzy Kosinski had the most fantastic and bizarre imagination of any American writer. Lurid episodes splatter his pages, rapes of village nymphs by jealous peasant women with rake handles and broken bottles and remote-control murders on Swiss ski slopes. Yet if People can be trusted, Kosinski's tales are more life than art, drawing on a misguided, exotic youth...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Horse Play | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

Although no one was hurt Wednesday, three black pupils were slightly injured Tuesday, when about 15 white teenagers wearing ski masks attacked three buses with rocks and large metal bolts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Violence Persists in Boston | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

...wanted to be in the boonies and ski," she said...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Edie MacAusland Takes Charge | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...grapevines behind the Joe and Mary Italian-American Restaurant in Brooklyn. Over pasta and red wine they were ostensibly celebrating the departure next day of the restaurant's owner, Giuseppe Turano, 48, on a vacation trip to Sicily. Suddenly a blue Mercury sedan drew up outside, and five ski-masked men rushed into the restaurant. Six feet from the table, they opened fire with shotguns and semi-automatic rifles. In a litter of rolls, half-eaten salad and .45-cal. shells sprawled the body of short, balding Carmine Galante, 69, shot in the left eye and chest, his teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death in the Afternoon | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Carmine Galante, 69, underworld boss; in a hail of gunfire blasts by ski-masked assassins as he lunched at a restaurant; in Brooklyn, N.Y. (see NATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 23, 1979 | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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