Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe ski team began its Division I career by tying for ninth place with St. Lawrence College at last weekend's 12-team Championship at Pat's Peak in New Hampshire...
Middlebury emerged as the champion of the Eastern Intercollegiate Women's Ski Association, with Dartmouth, Williams and Vermont rounding out the top four spots in the final meet of the season...
...freezing weather-the stationary high-pressure system off the California coast-had broken up. Its departure allowed westerly winds to carry clouds over the Rockies and dump long-overdue snow on barren slopes in Oregon, Wyoming and Colorado. California's refreshed farmers reveled in the rain, and mountain ski operators romped in the snow-but federal weather experts warned of ominous signs that the blocking pressure "high" might be reforming. It was also clear that the accumulated moisture was but a drop in the bucket of water needed to prevent massive crop failures, hydroelectric power shortages, widespread economic losses...
...beginning of the winter, if you had told the members of the Radcliffe ski team they would be skiing in a Division I carnival in March, they would have thought your mind had succumbed to the pressure of exams (remember exams...
With an older and less adventurous population, demographers predict, there will be less pressure on the nation's congested beaches, lakes, waterways, hiking trails, ski slopes and wilderness areas -while sales of art supplies, mah-jongg, backgammon, books and endless variations of electronic games should soar. The station wagon, the Patton tank of suburbia, may be replaced by smaller cars. The automakers expect to sell more of the handy vans that are already a part of the youth culture as well as more recreational vehicles: motor homes, campers, dune buggies, Jeeps, motorcycles and mopeds. Education may finally get better...