Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have yet to meet a New Englander (except possibly for children and skiers) who was hoping for snow. Granted, it can be a lovely sight initially, but within hours it is a dirty mess, causing havoc and inconvenience on all sides. If there were a rallying cry in New England in the winter, it would be: "Give us anything, but don't give us snow...
...citizens, as happened in Montreal during the 1976 Summer Games. To be sure, a certain amount of displacement has occurred. A young clerk for the Lake Placid Organizing Committee was bumped from her $300-a-month apartment so that the landlord could rent it during February to wealthy snow bunnies for $4,000. Another story making the rounds has houses being purchased for $75,000 and rented for half that figure for the 13-day duration of the Games...
...same tenacity makes him one of the toughest skiers on the mountain. He started skiing at two in the deep snow of the Cascade Mountains, where his parents ran a ski resort at White Pass, Wash. A gifted athlete, he has made himself into a downhill racer, even though the slalom and giant slalom are his natural events. In an age of specialization, he has become a genuine contender in all events. Can he win a gold at Lake Placid? Says Mahre: "So many things can be a factor. The snow, the weather, is it warm so that waxing...
...turned out, a terrific blizzard struck Squaw Valley just before the Games. No Gauls perished in the snow, despite the .fears of the French skiing official, but whether they made bed check is another matter (Sinatra was not there, but Danny Kaye and Red Skelton were...
...real villain of Squaw Valley was a stretch of snow on the women's downhill course. Shooting down the steepest part of the run, skiers would suddenly hit a bumpy, hard-packed mound that sent them flying just as they reached a 90° bend, appropriately dubbed "the airplane corner." The high hopes of the American women crashed at that turn: Betsy Snite and two teammates spilled. Pitou did not fall, but she tottered, squandering precious ticks of the clock and losing the gold medal by 1 sec. to Germany's Heidi Biebl...