Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disabled Vietnam War veteran, unnoticed and nearly trampled by the crowd, patiently moved through the long lift lines. One of his legs had been amputated after he was shot, he said, but he was learning how to ski because it was something he had always wanted to do. No one offered to ask the lift attendents to allow him to by-pass the 45-minute waiting line. No one offered to hold his place in line while he took the weight off his fatigued leg. As he slipped among the masses packed in the closely wrapped lines, hardly anyone even...
...excited at getting a chance to watch Ford ski...
...resent anything; I know what you're gonna say, but it doesn't do any good. I want him to watch me ski. I want him to know that I can ski if I want to, that I will ski...
...bearded vet stopped for a moment because it took all his concentration to use his two ski poles with small runners on them and his one good leg to ease around the U-turn in the line...
Ford's stay in Vail was not all ski and parley. His people beckoned, so each night the Ford entourage attended one or another of the extravaganzas hosted by the celebrities, tycoons and socialites who also were in town. One afternoon the Mid-Vail lodge was electric with rumors that even Jackie Kennedy was also in town...