Word: snowplows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley, not long ago, he spotted "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the Hollywood restaurateur, on skis, and promptly declared: "If Romanoff can do it, so can I." Soon Hilton was snowplow-ing down the beginners' slope...
...learned most of its skiing from the disciples of Austrian Hannes Schneider. Schneider's Arlberg method teaches beginners how to brake their speed, swoosh around trees, and turn -basing all movements on the snowplow (pointing the ski tips inwards to make a V) and the stem (pushing the back part of one ski out at an angle for a turn). Allais keeps his skis always parallel, controlling his speed by sideslipping, and turning by ruade (kicking the backs of the skis up and pivoting on the tips while rotating the body in the direction of the turn...
...first tournament at Portillo. They took the slopes the French way-keeping skis always close together, swinging weight to turn. Such teachings are heresy in the U.S., where Hannes Schneider's Alberg school has ruled for years, and uncounted thousands have angled their skis in stem and snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars, hopes to sign Allais to a five-year contract that will...
Barnstorming Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen whirled through Belgium in one day. France took only five. But this week as he headed for Athens, on the third leg of his two-month, 18-country tour, he was scooping up information like a snowplow...
Despite his harshness, Jeffers won and held a reputation for scrupulous fairness, and for never asking anyone to do anything that he wouldn't do himself. Once, when he was general superintendent, he ran a rotary snowplow for 120 hours, opened the main line for traffic. The railroad brotherhoods, with whom U.P.'s relations are so cordial that there has been no labor trouble since 1903, regard Jeffers as a hard, fair bargainer...