Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordie demonstrated his potential for the ski team at an early age. In third grade he stuck a fork in an electrical outlet, grasping tightly to ensure that the contact was good. It wasn't that he was trying to kill himself, he just figured that it might be interesting...
Peter Carter is the coach of the ski team, and in him are personified the many contradictions of the team: Leftist politics in the face of skiing's continued elitism, for instance. He is a good skier, having won the Latin American Championships in his day, and he continued to win many races in the East far past his day. At 26 most skiers would have retired years ago, but for some reason Carter hangs on in both spirit and performance. Team members often wonder what makes Carter go, why he does things the way that he does...
After last summer's crash in Chile, Harvard ski coach Peter Carter didn't seem to have a snowball's chance in hell of returning to top racing form...
...rubout was executed neat Chicago gangland style. Two armed men -wearing ski masks and carrying a walkie-talkie to get word from a lookout -slithered into Rose's Sandwich Shop on the hairy, scary West Side. "Up against the wall!" they ordered the eight people inside. One of the gunmen then shoved a twelve-gauge shotgun under the chin of Richard Cain, 49. The hit man fired two blasts, blowing away Cain's handsome face. The killers quickly fled, accompanied by what witnesses later said was a mysterious "woman in blue...
...European businesses. Sunday revenues of German hotels and restaurants have dropped as much as 30% to 70% since Sabbath driving was forbidden three weeks ago. The picturesque villages on the left bank of the Rhine between Bonn and Koblenz look all but deserted of tourists on Sundays. The Swiss ski industry is suffering; after two carless Sundays, crowds are thin at the resorts, and there is no waiting on tow lines. Skiers who usually arrive by car seem to be spurning the doubled train and bus schedules that the government has provided from cities. In Belgium, it had long been...