Word: sledded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system will move east into lower Michigan and Ohio by this evening. Residents in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the nation's second-snowiest city, are bracing for at least another foot of snow today. Despite the arctic conditions, some hardy Minnesota residents were undeterred: At the John Beargrease Sled Dog marathon in Grand Marais, Minnesota, racers were mushing onward, defying wind chills of 60 below...
...putting so many facets of his young boss into Kane--the inhuman vigor, the using of others, the sled he loved as a boy--Mank effectively wrote Welles' autobiography for him in screenplay form. There was a lot of the sour old writer too in the dark vitality of the newspaper scenes, the habit of looking down on men in high places, the name of young Herman's bicycle: Rosebud. The two men privately insisted it was Hearst's pet name for Marion's sex. But that could be an impish trick, just as the whole Rosebud plot is--since...
...balloon ended Wednesday with a forced landing in a Canadian farmer's field, just 1,800 miles into the trip. The 51-year-old Fossett, who has climbed some of the world's tallest peaks, set records in ballooning and sailing and completed Alaska's 1,100-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race, lifted off from South Dakota's Black Hills early Monday and immediately ran into trouble. A faulty autopilot system, extreme cold and a dead heater left him with just three hours sleep in two days. Then the electrical and communications systems failed. As a pair of helicopters combed...
...that time of year again, when my place at the North Pole is alive with excitement and activity. The elves have never been quite so busy, and Mrs. Claus is sewing some buttons on the old suit. I've been making some repairs to the sled and preparing the reindeer...
...they will never be stars or professionals can relate to -- the victory you yourself have won, the satisfaction you can get out of it." There is surely such satisfaction felt by the Jamaican bobsledders at the end of Cool Runnings. Having crashed in their final run, they hoist their sled above them and carry it to the finish line like a dead comrade. Winning, the movie dared say, isn't everything. Trying...