Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events in the past two weeks have caused the racial tension, Roos said. On February 23, the Dartmouth maintenance crew dismantled a three-week old "South Africa memorial graveyard" snow sculpture, Roos said. He explained that the snow sculpture lay on a main road through the campus and that there were others being dismantled at the same time...
Skimming down a steep, snow-covered road at Camp David in Maryland's lovely Catoctin Mountains, Jimmy Carter was enjoying the brisk air of an afternoon in the woods when the tip of one of his thin skis caught beneath a crust of rough ice. The President of the United States went down hard. The consequences of this tumble were clearly visible when he returned to snow-paralyzed Washington the next day: an ugly purple bruise the size of a silver dollar over his right eye, several bright red scratches on his cheek, a puffy lip and a slight...
Sparing its practitioners long drives up to the mountains and interminable lift waits, cross-country skiing can be done virtually anywhere: on snow-covered golf courses, cow pastures, backyards, city parks and streets. Yet those who want competition can have it. Some 4,500 resolute skiers entered last weekend's American-Birkebeiner cross-country race, a 55-km (34.2 miles) trek through the frozen marshes, forests and lakes of northern Wisconsin. (Last year the same race drew about 3,000 entries...
Unlike the heavy, metal-edged varieties used by downhill aficionados, touring skis are narrow and graceful. The waxable kind that require specially color-coded waxes for different temperatures give optimum performance. But the skier must become something of an expert on snow and weather conditions and take the time to continually change waxes: a day's outing could necessitate the use of green for subzero temperatures, blue for slightly warmer air and red for melting snow. The more casual cross-country skier usually chooses a waxless ski that comes grooved with fish-scale, diamond or chevron patterns to provide...
Although there are some 900 ski touring centers with specially groomed and graded trails, such amenities remain optional. Cross-country skiing can still conjure up the image of solitary figures etching fine lines in unbroken snow. Tim Murphy, a poet from Minneapolis, sees the sport as "a chance, if you seek out the right places, to completely shuck civilization and enjoy the pristine beauty of the snow and cold...