Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes while riding a ski lift to the top of a mountain in the northeast, a quirky furious wind suddenly blasts out of nowhere. A bracing gust howls across a valley, provoking violent rocking of your chair suspended high on the liftline. The wind picks up a lot of light snow and you have to close your eyes. In the next second, while your chair is still rocking, there is no wind at all. A stillness settles. Then, from out of the woods, jumps a white column of snow perhaps forty feet high which seems to be the manifestation...
...honoring the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney productions. Now that Walt himself is dead, his genius has evaporated from the conglomerate, Walt's old yes-men are trying to figure out ways of remaking Mary Poppins and failing. In any case, the Carnival does not have enough snow to ski at Dartmouth. Howard Chivers, manager of the Skiway, said "this certainly is the worst winter for ski conditions in my memory. We have nothing on our slopes that could be called a base. It's a checker board of bare ground and ice patches...
...Alpha Delta at which he told everyone how great he had been until producer Wanger ordered him to leave. When Fitzgerald and Schulberg left, they retired to a coffee shop and dictated a parody script which began, "We fade in on the thin clear cold slope of the ski slide, and fade through the thin clear cold mind of a Dartmouth undergraduate...
...policewoman at his side halted near by. Pretending to be tourists taking pictures, they managed to get a close look at the suspected kidnapers. Once back in Rome, the police identified the Calabrians and then shadowed them for a month before making the arrests. Young Getty, on an Austrian ski vacation with his mother, volunteered to fly to Rome to identify the suspects. Police are still seeking Saverio Mammoliti, who they think is "very close to the brain, or rather brains, behind the plot...
...Harvard ski team members had an idea. Knowing that the spirit of a valiant combatant often lives after the body is gone and vaguely remembering a movie of the late fifties based on the legend of El Cid they contracted a noted New Hampshire tinsmith. The tinsmith fixed up some metal and rubber braces for Carter's knees and riveted his body into proper racing position...