Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing he remembers about that time was that he was constantly shoveling snow. "I was usually one of the first ones out there for a game of shinny," he says, "and it was up to the first arrivals to clear a skating area." By the time Bobby was eight, recalls Dr. Don Pringle, a childhood friend who now practices medicine in Montreal, "he had muscles rippling all over him," and Papa Hull was already spending hours on the ice, endlessly drilling his son on the technique of stick handling. "He was sometimes impatient," says Bobby, "but he liked to skate...
...starts with his fanatical attention to detail. His bindings must be adjusted just so: feet straightaway for a downhill race, but slightly pigeon-toed for the slaloms -so that he can get more "heel thrust" and acceleration. His choice of skis varies according to the kind of race and snow conditions; he has been known to switch skis between the two runs of a slalom race-a practice followed by few of his competitors...
That was not the only embarrassment for the Russians. They also took it on the chin in ladies' cross-country skiing from a blonde Swedish snow bunny named Toini Gustafsson. A gymnastics teacher, Toini already had won the 10-kilometer cross-country; in the 5-kilometer, trailing Russia's Galina Koulakova by 4 sec. with one kilometer to go, she made a kamikaze dive down the last slope to earn a second gold medal...
...course, enabling Watson and Crick to win the DNA race; the distraction of wine and popsies at Cambridge University, where much of the great work was carried out. Burdened by the complex details of DNA research, Double Helix does not quite close the gap between C. P. Snow's "two cultures," but certainly narrows...
...course, the two are very much in love, but still Newley has to leave at midnight on the 30th as per agreement. Why? The truth is that she has some unspecified fatal illness and doesn't want him around "when it happens." So out he goes into the snow, while Sandy bravely and inanely tells her next client how beautiful it is going to be in December. And how jejune in January...