Word: sled
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...Washington schoolmates and chums. With Halloween shortly following Amy's tenth birthday party, the kiddie celebrants carved up pumpkins, gulped down hamburgers and punch, then settled back for a Frankenstein movie. Mom and Dad may have been anticipating colder days ahead, however. Their gift? A sled for Amy's winter visits to Camp David...
...Klondike. A year later he returned with only $4.50 worth of gold dust, but he had struck a mother lode in himself. He discovered he was a writer. After a few short stories in the manner of an Alaskan Rudyard Kipling, he scribbled a rattling yarn about a sled dog named Buck who, when his master was killed, turned wild in a snarling if romantic rejection of civilization. The Call of the Wild sold in the millions and made a myth of its mythmaker. Now, with the publication of two new biographies and the republication of a third, the question...
...perhaps hidden in some family vault near Melbourne, where a young boy of ten once frolicked in unburdened bliss, there is a rusty sled emblazoned with the word ... no, wait. It never snows in Melbourne, and Murdoch is no self-destructive Citizen Kane. America's newest press lord has only just discovered a whole nation of newspapers he does...
...country cousin who came to the city, the drop-in guest who stayed for a candlelight dinner. It has drifted in from the gold mines and cattle ranges of the Old West, from the wharves, barracks and boiler rooms of today, carrying a look as cleanly functional as sled or scythe. It is fluid, soft, supple, slithery, sexy and unstuffy. Says Consuelo Crespi, editor of Italian Vogue...
...bounced and slid and quivered over a couple hundred yards of the course. ABC then treated us, as five other skiers took their runs, to playbacks of the crash, plus interspersed shots of Grissman being dragged off the course by ski patrollers, Grissman being loaded onto a sled, Grissman waving feebly to the crowd, Grissman being slid into a helicopter, Grissman flying up the valley. All they needed to complete the scene was the theme from...