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Word: slalomer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alberto Tomba "La Bomba" had no scheduling conflicts when he was contacted and was actually able to ski right in to take up his teaching duties. Tomba, best known for his downhill Olympic slalom performance and for his wooing of the women, is considered by other TFs to be an "insightful and interesting person," regardless of his athleticism...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, Jessica A. Nordell, and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Not Your Average TF | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...venue, save a lone 12-year-old, showed much interest in rebounding off walls and wildly zipping around in figure-eights. The action centered around the massive video arcade that was abuzz with clicking triggers and virtual race car engines. Joanna and I decided to put our slalom talents to the test as we hopped on two pairs of stationary skis. She ruthlessly tore up the alpine slopes while I tumbled down a good third of the mountain, breaking every last phalange in my virtual body...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: Fun Fun Fun: A Trip to the Good Time Emporium | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...venue, save a lone 12-year-old, showed much interest in rebounding off walls and wildly zipping around in figure-eights. The action centered around the massive video arcade that was abuzz with clicking triggers and virtual race car engines. Joanna and I decided to put our slalom talents to the test as we hopped on two pairs of stationary skis. She ruthlessly tore up the alpine slopes while I tumbled down a good third of the mountain, breaking every last phalange in my virtual body...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...imbecilic, and helped--humanely at first, so they said--to ease the very worst cases, the utterly hopeless, the deformed and subhuman, toward a death that all reasonable people at the time thought would be the only decent thing. Having launched himself upon the course, Stangl did a giant slalom down the slippery slope and before too long found himself working as commandant of Treblinka, a Nazi extermination camp in Poland. There, Stangl presided over the death of 900,000 Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time For The Ice Floe, Pop | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Alpine skiing consists of slalom and giant slalom races, which are the same for both men and women. Despite sporadic practices due to a lot of rain and little snow, the team did its best to compensate by getting to the carnivals early and getting good training spots...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alpine, Nordic Ski Teams Battle Inconsistency | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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