Word: sledding
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...didn't get to know the man--he'd just been with us a few weeks. He was working on his S.U. carb on the shoulder of the road near our firetrap the other night when a broad in a cage went off the road, smackin' him and his sled, shovin' 'em a hundred feet down the road. It makes you wonder why these things happen...
...campaign planes and buses. The old entertainer usually seeks to entertain his companions too. On a campaign bus driving through a heavy snow in New Hampshire, he started out with a labored joke: "If anyone hears dogs barking, it's because the next leg will be done by sled." That led to a stream-of-consciousness monologue skipping erratically from dogs to other animals to firearms (Reagan has a small gun collection and does some target shooting, though he does not hunt) and concluding with a reading aloud from that day's installment of Doonesbury, one of Reagan's favorite...
Carter has returned to his position as the man to beat, but he is not invincible. If Kennedy can hang onto his campaign sled in the snows of Maine and New Hampshire, events might turn his way. A two-man Democratic race might be an advantage to the party at this stage. A Kennedy dropout would leave a single target for Republican snipers. But Kennedy has not quit, and his staff remains focussed on the domestic issues that will rise to the fore with a break on the international scene. As they say in politics, it ain't over...
With speeds so high and stresses so intense, bobsledding now requires well-trained athletes, not the hell-for-leather but paunchy types who once populated the sport. Before restrictions in the early '50s, on the combined weight of sled and crew, bobsledders simply loaded their machines with beef, using the extra weight to build momentum. Recalls Nathan Pratt, who daily hand-sculpts the course's corners by shaving ice in one spot or building it up in another: "In the old days, they used to train by drinking gallons of beer. Sometimes I'd have to help...
Davenport learned so fast that he became a member of the top U.S. sled, as had Jeff Gadley, 24, a former decathlon man. Davenport and Gadley will be the first two American blacks ever to compete in the Winter Olympics. If they win, giving the U.S. its first gold medal in bobsledding since 1948, Davenport will gain a further distinction: he will become only the second man in history to win gold medals in both the Winter and Summer Olympics...