Word: slaloming
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...however rewarding crew may be as a sport, many important advantages accrue to the ski enthusiast. Surrounded by snow, with the cold wind whipping across his face, ski poles in hand and poised to make the suicide slalom run, he suddenly realizes that he is a member of a team. There is togetherness and camaraderie in skiing; Men against Nature, the spirit of conquest, adventure and the Great Outdoors...
...occasion was the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race, held in Tuckerman's Ravine. This is the traditional windup meet for the Crimson skiers, and the way it is run is unusual in several respects...
...Speer's protests, and with the informal support of fellow board members, Papa Pecjak took Sharon out of school the day before the meet, drove her and other nonmathematicians to the elimination races at Winter Park, Colo. All four made the Nationals; Sharon won both the downhill and slalom races in her division...
...seems determined to run the Massachusetts Bay colony without her advice. Of course, "a provoking lass she was, [with her] hair black as a wicked Spaniard's. There was a bursting carnal femaleness about her . . ." At this point, the reader will suspect that he is in for a slalom round every four-poster bed that can be worked into the narrative. Not so: no hussy she. Elizabeth represents a thoroughly modern, interfaith point of view among the heretic-hunting Puritans; and among the schismatics of prerevolutionary New England, she is the spirit of togetherness, a one-woman P.T.A. opposed...
...Crimson will send to Hanover "the strongest downhill and slalom teams in the history of Harvard," according to Arkley. Both he and Stephenson were confident that Harvard would better last year's poor eighth place finish...