Word: slalomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slalom, the U.S. team had an overwhelming favorite: bespectacled, oak-legged Marilyn Shaw, 17-year-old daughter of the owner of the general store at Stowe, Vt. At 15 she outran a crack field that included famed Betty Woolsey, once ranked among the world's first ten woman skiers. Last year Miss Shaw waltzed off with the ladies' U.S. slalom championship...
Last week, darting like a goldfish through the layout of 40 "gates"-including hair-raising hairpin turns, flushes (S curves) and right-angle elbows-Miss Shaw was clocked in the breath-taking time of i min. 44.4 sec. On the same f-mile slalom course earlier in the day, ten top-flight men skiers had competed in Lake Placid's annual Washington's Birthday ski meet. Only three of them had chalked up better time than Miss Shaw's (winning time...
When the two-race totals were tallied, Marilyn Shaw had piled up 196.94 points, led her four teammates-who had all finished the slalom in faster time than the fastest Canadian-to a clear-cut victory over their northern neighbors...
...clubs played second fiddle to the Hochgebirgers in their twelfth annual meet the last weekend at Franconia, N. H., with the Harvard Schussers and the Plymouth (N.H.) club swapping second and third places in the downhill and slalom...
Rankings and times of the individual runners in the slalom yesterday were not available last night, but it was disclosed that the Plymouth Ski Club, who nosed out by a second and and half on their total time the day before, had finished second ahead of Harvard yesterday...